WHEN I FALL DOWN ON MY FACE
DON'T REACH OUT
TO HELP ME
I'M FEELING MUCH TOO BAD
TO WAKE UP TO YOUR
SYMPATHY
Power of Love
is the second
studio album
by
issued in
March 1968
on Liberty Records,
the final by the group
with the namesakes of
The Allman Brothers Band.
After the failure
of their first album,
Liberty Records
allowed a greater
independence for the group,
who had been virtually shut out
of the decision making
for their first album
by the label
and producer
Dallas Smith.
However,
with the label's decision
to retain Smith
as producer,
the group,
especially
Duane Allman,
once again felt
constricted by
their label's
expectations
for the album.
With Smith
behind the boards,
Gregg Allman
was still the focus.
The younger Allman,
who had seen only one
of his compositions
on the previous album,
contributed seven
of the twelve tracks.
The remainder were
two from
Marlon Greene
and
Eddie Hinton
and one each
from the teams of
Spooner Oldham
and
Dan Penn,
John Berry
and
Don Covay,
and
John Lennon
and
Paul McCartney
The group performed
all of the instrumentation,
with
Duane Allman
adding electric sitar
to their cover of
The Beatles'
"Norwegian Wood
(This Bird Has Flown)"
(Instr),
a staple
of their
live act.
After the failure
of the album
to enter the chart,
the Hour Glass
traveled to
Fame Studios
in Muscle Shoals,
Alabama,
in an attempt to
further refine their sound.
However,
Dallas Smith
and
Liberty Records
were displeased
with the group-produced
blues-fueled rock tracks
that the group returned to
Los Angeles with,
as they were
light years away
from the pop music
Smith envisioned
them performing.
Additionally,
seeing himself
cut out of the group's picture
was not ideal for Smith,
even if his relations
with the group
had been strained.
Hour Glass
disbanded shortly thereafter,
with
Gregg Allman
returning to California
to satisfy the terms
of the group's contract
with Liberty.
Paired with
a studio band,
Allman recorded
roughly an album's
worth of material,
though it took
nearly a quarter
of a century
for it to surface
TRACKLIST
Power Of Love
Changing Of The Guard
To Things Before
I'm Not Afraid
I Can Stand Alone
Down In Texas
I Still Want Your Love
Home For The Summer
I'm Hanging Up My Heart For You
Going Nowhere
Norwegian Wood
(This Bird Has Flown)
(Instr)
Now Is The Time
Bonus
Gregg Allman
Liberty
Recording
Sessions
It's Not My Cross To Bear
Southbound
God Rest His Soul
February 3rd
Apollo 8
BONUS !!!
(Southbound)
(The Rare Liberty Recordings)
Southbound
God Rest His Soul
Apollo 8
It´s Not My Cross To Bear
Down In Texas
Three Time Loser
Bad Dream
She Is My Woman
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Kind Of A Man
I´ve Been Trying
(Version 1)
In A Time
No comments:
Post a Comment