The Allman Brothers Band-Brothers Of The Road (1981)


 

Artist: The Allman Brothers Band

Title: Brothers Of The Road 

Label: Arista

Format: LP

Catalog Number: AL 9564

Year of Release: 1981

Country and Year of Edition: US 1981Terre Haute Pressing, Promo

Sell Price: $4.17

Sell Date: 11/12/24 

Condition: VG/F sticker tear upper left corner, clipped right corner, Arista sticker on album "featuring the hits Two Rights, Straight From The Heart, The Judgement"

Discogs Last Sold: 11/11/24 VG+/VG+ $10.53

Low: $3.00

Median: $6.38

Average: $7.57

High: $15.84

Current low price: $4.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 31

Have/Want: 1087/115

Where Sold: Martinsburg, WV

Time It Took To Sell:  8 years

Where and When Bought: used Worcester, MA That's Entertainment 50 cents early 80's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C-

Sad To See It Go: No

I got this record fairly soon after discovering my local used record store That's Entertainment.  They had a dollar bin and this was in it for 49 cents due to a cover that was in rough shape.  It was a promo that looked like a deleted radio copy although it didn't have the tell-tale call letter mark up.  The vinyl was very clean for fifty cents and plays clean today.

I was familiar with Eat A Peach at the time because one of my father's guitar students gave him the record for him to teach a song from it.  Brothers of the Road was more of an early 80's AOR record I thought was boring including the top 40 single I knew, "Straight From The Heart."  Apparently, "Leavin'" was also done on Saturday Night Live in January 1982, but there is no evidence of this up on Youtube.  There is a clip from the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ a month prior, so that is probably the same arrangement.

The record didn't seem to make it out of the mid-80's for their long and varied live sets through 2014 which speaks more about this album than I ever could.  The best tracks of the record in my view are the two closers "Things You Used To Do" and "I Beg Of You" where things sound a little less slick and more like the Allmans of old.  I avoided getting any other post-Capricorn Allmans for many many years until getting a copy of Enlightened Rogues last year and liking it (wait that is the Capricorn swan song from 1979).   I thought maybe my 12 or 13 year old self might've missed something on this album, but it plays like I remember it from the one time I played it over 40 years ago.

Mostly slick and bland.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East (1971)

Brothers and Sisters (1973)

Derek and the Dominoes-Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)

B.B. King-Live In Cook County Jail (1971)

Eric Clapton-461 Ocean Boulevard (1974)

Joni Mitchell-Court and Spark (1974)

Eric Clapton-There's One In Every Crowd (1975)

Molly Hatchet-Molly Hatchet (1978)

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