The Road Goes On Forever (The Allman Brothers Band album)
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The Road Goes On Forever was The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band is an American rock/blues band once based in Macon, Georgia. The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman and Gregg Allman , who were supported by Dickey Betts , Berry Oakley , Butch Trucks , and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe"...

's first compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

, a two-LP set released in 1975. It featured songs from the Allmans' first five albums. In 2001, an expanded edition was released featuring 13 more tracks. The album's title is a line from "Midnight Rider
Midnight Rider
"Midnight Rider" is a popular and widely covered song by The Allman Brothers Band, from their album Idlewild South. Written by Gregg Allman and Robert Kim Payne, the song has become a fixture of the band's live performances and an enduring standard...

."

Record 1: Side 1

  1. "Black Hearted Woman" (Greg Allman) – 5:18
  2. "Dreams" (Allman) – 7:19
  3. "Whipping Post
    Whipping Post (song)
    "Whipping Post" is a song by The Allman Brothers Band. Written by Gregg Allman, the five-minute studio version first appeared on their 1969 debut album The Allman Brothers Band. But the song's full power only manifested itself in concert, when it was the basis for much longer and more intense...

    " (Allman) – 5:22
  4. "Midnight Rider
    Midnight Rider
    "Midnight Rider" is a popular and widely covered song by The Allman Brothers Band, from their album Idlewild South. Written by Gregg Allman and Robert Kim Payne, the song has become a fixture of the band's live performances and an enduring standard...

    " (Allman, Robert Payne) – 3:00

Record 1: Side 2

  1. "Statesboro Blues
    Statesboro Blues
    "Statesboro Blues" is a blues song in the key of D written by Blind Willie McTell; the title refers to the town of Statesboro, Georgia. Covered by many artists, the version by The Allman Brothers Band is especially notable and was ranked #9 by Rolling Stone in their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar...

    " (Live
    Recorded Live
    Recorded Live is a live album by British blues rock musicians Ten Years After, which was released as a double LP in 1973.--This album is a truthful recording of Ten Years After with no overdubs or additives. What you--hear is what happened on the night...

    ) (Blind Willie McTell
    Blind Willie McTell
    Blind Willie McTell , was an influential Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues, although, unlike his contemporaries, he used exclusively a twelve-string guitar...

    ) – 4:20
  2. "Stormy Monday
    Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)
    "Call It Stormy Monday " is a blues song written by T-Bone Walker and first recorded in 1947. Confusingly, it is also sometimes referred to as "Stormy Monday Blues", although that is the title of a 1942 song by Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine...

    " (Live) (T-Bone Walker
    T-Bone Walker
    Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker was a critically acclaimed American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was one of the most influential pioneers and innovators of the jump blues and electric blues sound. He is the first musician recorded playing blues with the...

    ) - 8:50
  3. "(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon
    Willie Dixon
    William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...

    ) – 4:58
  4. "Stand Back" (Allman, Berry Oakley
    Berry Oakley
    Raymond Berry Oakley III , was an American bassist and one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band.-Biography:...

    ) – 3:26

Record 2: Side 3

  1. "One Way Out" (Live) (Elmore James
    Elmore James
    Elmore James was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and band leader. He was known as "the King of the Slide Guitar" and had a unique guitar style, noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice.-Biography:James was born Elmore Brooks in the old Richland community in...

    , Marshall Sehorn, Sonny Boy Williamson II
    Sonny Boy Williamson II
    Willie "Sonny Boy" Williamson was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, from Mississippi. He is acknowledged as one of the most charismatic and influential blues musicians, with considerable prowess on the harmonica and highly creative songwriting skills...

    ) – 5:00
  2. "Blue Sky
    Blue Sky (song)
    "Blue Sky" is the eighth track by the Allman Brothers Band off the Eat a Peach album.Dickey Betts wrote this about his Native American girlfriend, Sandy "Bluesky" Wabegijig. And for a while, Betts refused to perform this after their 1975 divorce....

    " (Dickey Betts
    Dickey Betts
    Forrest Richard "Dickey" Betts is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and also won with the band a best rock performance Grammy Award for his...

    ) – 5:11
  3. "Hot 'Lanta
    Hot 'Lanta
    "Hot 'Lanta" is an instrumental song performed by the Allman Brothers Band. It debuted on their live album At Fillmore East, released in July 1971, the fifth song on the album. "Hot 'Lanta" is a nickname of Atlanta, Georgia....

    " (Allman, Betts, Jai Johanny Johanson
    Jai Johanny Johanson
    Jai Johanny Johanson , frequently known by the stage name Jaimoe, is an American drummer and percussionist. He is best known as one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band.-Early years:...

    , Oakley, Butch Trucks) – 5:22
  4. "Ain't Wastin' Time No More" (Allman) – 3:40
  5. "Melissa
    Melissa (song)
    "Melissa" is a song written in 1967 by Gregg Allman and Steve Alaimo. It was first recorded by The 31st of February – an early band comprising the Allman brothers, Gregg and Duane – in September 1968 at TK Studios, Hialeah, United States for the their second album produced by Alaimo, which was...

    " (Steve Alaimo
    Steve Alaimo
    Steve Alaimo was an American teen idol pop singer in the early 1960s who later became record producer and label owner, but he is perhaps best known for hosting and co-producing Dick Clark's Where the Action Is in the late 1960s...

    , Allman) – 3:54

Record 2: Side 4

  1. "Wasted Words" (Allman) – 4:20
  2. "Jessica" (Betts) – 7:30
  3. "Ramblin' Man
    Ramblin' Man
    Ramblin' Man may refer to:*"Ramblin' Man" , a 1951 song, covered by Hank Williams III and The Melvins in 1999*"Ramblin' Man" , a 1973 song*Ramblin' Man a 1992 compilation...

    " (Betts) – 4:50
  4. "Little Martha
    Little Martha
    "Little Martha" was the only Allman Brothers Band track written solely by group leader and partial namesake Duane Allman. The tune first appeared on the final studio track on the Allman Brothers Band's fourth album, Eat A Peach, released in 1972...

    " (Allman) – 2:10

Disc one

  1. "Don't Want You No More" (Live) (Spencer Davis
    Spencer Davis
    Spencer David Nelson Davis is a British musician and multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of the 1960s rock band, the Spencer Davis Group.-Early life:...

    , Eddie Hardin
    Eddie Hardin
    Eddie Hardin , is an English rock pianist and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his associations with the Spencer Davis Group, Axis Point also Hardin and York...

    ) – 2:25
  2. "It's Not My Cross to Bear" (Live) (Allman) – 4:57
  3. "Blackhearted Woman" (Allman) – 5:18
  4. "Trouble No More
    Trouble No More (song)
    "Trouble No More" is an upbeat blues song first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1955. The song was a hit the following year, reaching #7 in the Billboard R&B chart...

    " (Live) (Muddy Waters
    Muddy Waters
    McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...

    ) – 3:49
  5. "Dreams" (Allman) – 7:19
  6. "Whipping Post" (Allman) – 5:22
  7. "Revival" (Live) (Betts) – 4:05
  8. "Midnight Rider" (Allman, Payne) – 3:00
  9. "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" (Live) (Allman) – 3:31
  10. "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Dixon) – 4:58
  11. "Statesboro Blues" (Live) (McTell) – 4:20
  12. "Stormy Monday" (Live) (Walker) – 8:50
  13. "Hot 'Lanta" (Live) (Allman, Betts, Johanson, Oakley, Trucks) – 5:22
  14. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
    In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
    "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" is a jazz-influenced instrumental composed by Dickey Betts that became one of the best-known works ever recorded by The Allman Brothers Band, especially the version on their 1971 live album At Fillmore East.-Overview:...

    " (Live) (Betts) – 13:05

Disc two

  1. "One Way Out" (Live) (James, Sehorn, Williamson) – 5:00
  2. "Ain't Wastin' Time No More" (Allman) – 3:40
  3. "Melissa" (Alaimo, Allman) – 3:54
  4. "Stand Back" (Allman, Oakley) – 3:26
  5. "Blue Sky" (Betts) – 5:11
  6. "Little Martha" (Allman) – 2:10
  7. "Wasted Words" (Allman) – 4:20
  8. "Ramblin' Man" (Betts) – 4:50
  9. "Southbound" (Live) (Betts) – 5:10
  10. "Jessica" (Betts) – 7:30
  11. "Come and Go Blues" (Live) (Allman) – 5:03
  12. "Can't Lose What You Never Had" (Waters) – 5:54
  13. "Win, Lose or Draw" (Allman) – 4:47
  14. "Crazy Love" (Betts) – 3:45
  15. "Can't Take It With You" (Betts) – 3:36
  16. "Pegasus
    Pegasus (song)
    "Pegasus" is the third song from The Allman Brothers Band's 1979 album Enlightened Rogues. It is an instrumental written by lead guitarist Dickey Betts.The song draws some comparisons to "Jessica" in some respects...

    " (Betts) – 7:31
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