Eat A Peach 2CD

One of the indispensable albums of rock from one of the indispensable icons of rock, The Allman Brothers Bands Eat A Peach has been expanded to bring together the remastered 1972 album and the groups complete legendary performance at the final concert at the Fillmore East. Now a two-CD set, Eat A Peach Deluxe Edition (Mercury/UMe), released May 23, 2006, includes nearly 70 minutes of never-before-heard performances.

Released soon after the tragic death of guitarist Duane Allman, the original two-LP album featured both live and studio material. Along with two March 1971 concert cuts not heard on the earlier Live At Fillmore East double album (Mountain Jam and Trouble No More) were three tracks (Stand Back, Blue Sky and Little Martha) completed with Duane for what was scheduled to be the bands fourth album, three studio recordings from the post-Duane band (Aint Wastin Time No More, Les Brers In A Minor and Melissa) and one track from the Fillmore Easts finale (One Way Out). Eat A Peach became the groups biggest seller to date as well as its first Top 10 album, peaking at #4 and spending an amazing 48 weeks on the charts.

For Eat A Peach Deluxe Edition and heard for the first time from the Allman Brothers June 27, 1971 performance that closed the Fillmore East are renditions of Statesboro Blues, Dont Keep Me Wonderin, Done Somebody Wrong, In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed, Hot Lanta, Whipping Post and You Dont Love Me. (Previously issued are One Way Out and the concerts Midnight Rider.)
Brothers Gregg (vocals, keyboards) and Duane Allman (guitars), Dickey Betts (guitars, vocals), Berry Oakley (bass), and Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny Johanson (drums) formed the band in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969 before moving to Macon, Georgia. Their first two albums were only modest successes. Eat A Peach was the bands breakthrough.