The Band
1969
They converted the pool house of a rented Hollywood home into a studio. Most of these songs about the American South were written by a Canadian.
★ 8.5
The Albums canon
Sourced and spun.
Every record chosen by hand and annotated for why it matters.
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At Fillmore East
1971
Recorded over two nights in March 1971, and Duane Allman was dead in a motorcycle crash before the year was out.
★ 7.7
Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
1973
The band named themselves after a gym teacher who kept sending them home over their hair. Free Bird's guitar outro runs five minutes.
★ 5.9
Eat a Peach
1972
Duane Allman died halfway through making it, so the band finished the rest as a five-piece. One jam runs thirty-three minutes.
★ 5.5
Waiting for Columbus
1978
Tower of Power's horn section joined them for these shows, and a good deal of it was quietly fixed in the studio afterwards.
★ 4.8
Aha Shake Heartbreak
2004
Three brothers and a cousin, raised on a Pentecostal preaching circuit, playing scrappy Southern garage rock. Britain loved it years before America noticed.
★ 3.1