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"Soulshine" is a song written by American musician Warren Haynes and originally recorded by Larry McCray on his 1993 album, Delta Hurricane. It is best known as a recording that The Allman Brothers Band released on their 1994 album, Where It All Begins , featuring Gregg Allman on vocals.
No One to Run With" was originally written by guitarist Dickey Betts alongside hometown friend John Prestia in the early 1980s. [2] Warren Haynes' song "Soulshine" was recorded by the band and included on the album at the suggestion of Gregg Allman. [2]
The song then went on to peak at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week. [1] "Shine" won a Billboard award for Top Rock Track. [2] VH1 would later rank the song at number 42 on their list of the "100 Greatest Songs of the '90s". In 2012, a rerecorded version recorded by Collective Soul was released as a playable song for the game Rock ...
Written by guitarist Dickey Betts, the song is a tribute to gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, in that it was designed to be played using only two fingers on the left hand. Betts wrote the majority of "Jessica" at the band's farm in Juliette, Georgia. He named it after his daughter, Jessica Betts, who was an infant when it was released.
Gov't Mule is the debut studio album by the American band Gov't Mule.The album was produced and mostly recorded live by Michael Barbiero at Bearsville Sound Studios, with many tracks running into each other.
[6] The New York Times has written that "its written riffs and jazz-ish harmonies [allow] improvisers room." [ 7 ] Accordingly, "Elizabeth Reed" has appeared in many Allman Brothers concerts, sometimes running half an hour or more, [ 8 ] and on numerous Allman Brothers live albums, but first and most notably on At Fillmore East , which many ...
Gregg Allman was 21 years old when the song was first recorded. Its writing dates back to late March 1969, when The Allman Brothers Band was first formed. [11] Gregg had failed to make a name for himself as a musician during a late-1960s stint in Los Angeles, [12] and was on the verge of quitting music altogether when his brother Duane Allman called and said his new band needed a vocalist.
The song conveys the feel and tone of a blues song, but does not follow any of the usual eight-bar blues or twelve-bar blues progressions. The song has harmonic resemblance to Howlin' Wolf's recordings of "Sitting on Top of the World" in its inclusion of a minor IV chord in the fourth measure of the progression, while also harmonically resembling "Trouble in Mind", a blues standard. [3]