The Final Note

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The Final Note
Duane Allman, playing guitar onstage
Live album by
The Allman Brothers Band
ReleasedOctober 16, 2020
RecordedOctober 17, 1971
VenuePainters Mill Music Fair
Owings Mills, Maryland
GenreBlues rock, Southern rock
LabelAllman Brothers Band Recording Company
The Allman Brothers Band chronology
Trouble No More: 50th Anniversary Collection
(2020) 		The Final Note
(2020) 		Warner Theatre, Erie, PA 7-19-05
(2020)

The Final Note is a live album by the Allman Brothers Band. It was recorded on October 17, 1971 at the Painters Mill Music Fair in Owings Mills, Maryland. It was released on October 16, 2020.

The Final Note documents the last performance by guitarist Duane Allman, who died in a motorcycle accident twelve days later. The album includes part of the concert, and was recorded by a music journalist using a hand-held cassette recorder with an internal microphone.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Critical reception[]

On AllMusic, Thom Jurek said, "The band's eight-song performance is deeply satisfying musically. From top to bottom, they leave everything on the stage, with no letup.... If you can forgive the somewhat dodgy sound, The Final Note is an essential addition to ABB lore and captures the band at their kinetic best."[1]

In the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Wade Tatangelo wrote, "The Final Note presents not just Duane Allman’s last show but a band at the height of its power with an audience elated to witness the pioneering Southern rockers.... And the sound quality, it should be stressed, will be fine for anyone with bootleg ears, and is likely to grow on the uninitiated."[2]

In Under the Radar, Frank Valish said, "Given that The Final Note was sourced from a cassette tape crowd recording from the early '70s, the sound quality is not terrific. But fidelity aside (and the sound here is not bad, considering the circumstances), the historic nature of the concert takes ultimate precedence.... Duane Allman's slide guitar takes front and center stage from the opener..."[3]

In All About Jazz, C. Michael Bailey wrote, "An audience recording made on a 60-minute cassette tape by radio music journalist Sam Idas, the performance sounds exactly like that, an audience live recording, probably like the myriad of similar recordings made of the Grateful Dead by enthusiastic fans. The recording has a deeply organic and spontaneous sound. Hearing it today is akin to reading the Dead Sea Scrolls in all of their flawed glory on the day they were discovered."[4]

Track listing[]

  1. "Statesboro Blues" (Blind Willie McTell)
  2. "Trouble No More" (Muddy Waters)
  3. "Don't Keep Me Wondering" (Gregg Allman)
  4. "Done Somebody Wrong" (Clarence Lewis, Elmore James, Morris Levy)
  5. "One Way Out" (Marshall Sehorn, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Elmore James)
  6. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Dickey Betts)
  7. "Hot 'Lanta" (Gregg Allman, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks, Berry Oakley, Jai Johanny Johanson)
  8. "Whipping Post" (Gregg Allman)

Personnel[]

The Allman Brothers Band

Charts[]

Chart performance for The Final Note
Chart (2021) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[7] 168

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Jurek, Thom. "The Allman Brothers Band: Final Note". AllMusic. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Tatangelo, Wade (October 13, 2020). "Allman Brothers Band's 'The Final Note' Is Duane Allman's Powerful Farewell". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Valish, Frank (November 23, 2020). "Allman Brothers Band: The Final Note". Under the Radar. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Bailey, C. Michael (October 24, 2020). "Allman Brothers Band: The Final Note – Painters Mill Music Fair, Owings Mills, MD 10-17-71". All About Jazz. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  5. ^ Peters, Tony (October 28, 2020). "Allman Brothers Band – The Final Note". Icon Fetch. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  6. ^ Wills, Will (October 17, 2020). "The Allman Brothers and "The Final Note"". CultureSonar. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  7. ^ "Debuts on this week's #Billboard200 (4/4)..." Billboard on Twitter. Retrieved July 27, 2021.
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