Laid Back | 
 enlarge | Artist: Gregg Allman
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 34637
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 831941
UPC: 042283194120
EAN: 0042283194120
ASIN: B000001FM4
Release Date: May 1, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Midnight Rider | | • | Queen of Hearts | | • | Please Call Home | | • | Don't Mess Up a Good Thing - Gregg Allman, Sain, Oliver | | • | These Days - Gregg Allman, Browne, Jackson | | • | Multi-Colored Lady | | • | All My Friends - Gregg Allman, Boyer, Scott | | • | Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Gregg Allman, Traditional |
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By the end of 1973, the Allman Brothers Band seemed to have it all nailed down. They'd proven their mettle with a fine synthesis of blues, jazz, folk, and country influences; expanded upon it with the definitive Fillmore East set; and moved forward after the separate losses of guitarist Duane Allman and bassist Berry Oakley. The group's myriad strengths, in fact, might've been the reason that one of their most obvious gifts--Gregg Allman's pained, growling voice--was sometimes overlooked. Laid Back, Gregg Allman's first solo disc, seems in part an effort to gain a little more recognition. It worked, particularly given the strong radio response to its opening track, a loping remake of "Midnight Rider." Likewise, much of the album's remainder finds Allman tweaking the band's blues ("Queen of Hearts") and country sides (a cover of Jackson Browne's "These Days"); horns and gospelish backing vocals add to the personal, often mournful feel. Much more coherent than its dated cover art (an either childlike or blasted-out-of-his-gourd Gregg ignoring a blazing volcano) indicates, Laid Back is an often convincing version of the man's music. For Allman, it would get much, much worse before it would be this good again. --Rickey Wright
Album Description
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) paper sleeve pressing. Universal. 2008.
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| Customer Reviews:
The greatest Album of All Time August 24, 2008
Kendall Newton
This Album is the PERFECT blend of Southern rock, Blues, and, yes urban jazz. I'm a Sinatra fan, but I went to college in Statesboro, Ga. and I know good blues when I hear it. I'm also a big jazz fan, and I'm tellin you, this one's got it all!!!
Classic Greg Allman June 18, 2008
John Keith (Birmingham, AL)
One of my favorite Greg Allman records.
Fantastic songs and players.
Glass of wine, favorite companion and Laid Back...
Some of Greggs best songs as well...
 just great! March 2, 2008
Bruce W. Carlson (usa)
Forget all the babel! This album is great!. It can be argued It's as good as any a.b effort.
The sound is wonderful and warm, as wonderful and as warm as greggs playing and his vocal.
Beautiful arrangements.Great song choice.Great album.
Soulful Masterpiece October 19, 2007
John Carroll (Alpharetta, GA USA)
Some old bed I hope to be sharing.....sung like somebody who has seen too much and is letting it all flow out. Midnight Rider starts this record off with a sultry doeful groove that weaves thru the entire album. This is Gregg Allman singing for the down and out and it is one of the cool things that music like this actually makes you feel happy. I find my head constantly bobbing up and down as I listen to songs like Queen of Hearts and All My Friends. This is church music for rock and roll sinners...the kind of folks that drink too much but in the end have a good heart. The band is stellar- check out the 3/4 jazz riffing in Queen of Hearts. Please Call Home is as soulful as it gets brother- a man singing from his gut to a lover on her way out with nice guitar touches and gospel background vocals accentuating the sadness of the plea. The cover version of the Jackson Browne penned These Days captures the wistfullness of the lyrics perfectly especially as Gregg sings don't confront me with my failures I'm aware of them. Allman is as good a soul singer as this country has ever produced and this album is a masterpiece.
LAID BACK IS BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED, ROMANTIC, AND FULL OF TEARS (It also has the slow, swampy version of Midnight Rider) June 25, 2007
ol' nuff n' den sum (the Virginia coast, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In 1973 Gregg Allman went into the studio to record his first solo album with Chuck Leavell, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, Scott Boyer and Tommy Talton of Cowboy, Allman Brothers Band producer Johnny Sandlin, and produced a near perfect album of reflective, sorrowful, romantic, and acoustically beautiful songs, and it has been the hallmark of his solo recording career. The production is glossy, yet never overdone. The acoustics are crisp and clear, the orchestration is lush yet never intrusive, and the musicianship is precise and professional. Gregg's voice has never sounded better as he interprets these songs of love, loss, hope, sadness, and regretful contemplation.
The opening song, Midnight Rider is done with an acoustic guitar, a dobro, an electric piano, horns, and bongo drums. It's that excellent, slow, swampy version that you've heard on the radio. Queen Of Hearts is a love song that features some great vocals from Gregg and a jazzy tempo change for the piano and saxophone solos. Please Call Home has gospel singers and electric guitar along with the standard piano the Allman Brothers song is known for. Allman steps up and rocks a little bit on the piano boogie Don't Mess Up A Good Thing. The Jackson Browne penned These Days is a highlight here and of Gregg's solo career. With an arrangement that features a beautiful pedal steel guitar and Allman's mournful vocals, the song will send you into thoughtful rumination and it sounds just great. Multicolored Lady is an acoustic guitar and orchestra ballad that tells the tale of the singer boarding a bus and sitting "next to a broken-hearted bride". It's sentimental , and the tender story of two lonely strangers holds your interest as it unfolds. All My Friends is an acoustic guitar based song with plenty of orchestration and a nice electric guitar solo. Very moody, very contemplative, and very good. The spiritual Will The Circle Be Unbroken closes the album with a full-tilt gospel arrangement, and Gregg's most sorrowful singing ever. With the deaths of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley still recent, the song takes on a new life, once again, and sounds as sad and melancholic as it ever has.
Laid Back is a beautiful album, with many moods and textures, and it has a sort of resigned and reflective feel to it. This is the type of album that's best listened to on a cold and cloudy or rainy afternoon, while sitting next to a window. It's Gregg Allman's most romantic and well produced solo album,and probably his best, too.
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