Allman Brothers ~ Statesboro Blues & Every Hungry Woman

Atlanta International Pop Festival: July 3 & 5, 1970 A live album released by the Allman Brothers Band. Featuring their two performances at the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival in Byron, Georgia. The festival took place nearly a year before the concerts that appear on At Fillmore East. Highlights include a “Mountain Jam“ on which Johnny Winter guests. The festival took place while the Allmans were in the process of recording their second album, Idlewild South, when they appeared on July 3 as the hometown openers of the entire festival and proceeded to blow the minds of over 100,000 people -- for their last set on July 5 at 3:50 a.m. they performed in front of as many as 500,000. Musically, the July 3 set is magical. Gregg Allman’s “Every Hungry Woman,“ to its rightful place -- previously only having been available on an anthology. Harp player Thom Doucette, no stranger to ABB fans, is here aplenty, adding his righteous, stinging harp lines to many tracks on both nights. The way Gregg’s organ playing is recorded h