Beginnings (The Allman Brothers Band album)

Beginnings
Compilation album by The Allman Brothers Band
Released	1973
Recorded	1969-1970
Genre	Southern rock
Length	63:55
Label	Atco Records
The Allman Brothers Band chronology
Eat a Peach (1972) Beginnings (1973) Brothers and Sisters (1973)

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Beginnings is a 1973 reissue of the Allman Brothers Band's first two albums, The Allman Brothers Band and Idlewild South, made to capitalize on the band's popularity since those records had first come out. Beginnings also includes extensive liner notes by writer Jean-Charles Costa that gave many fans their first coherent view of the band's history, as well as useful guidelines for how to tell Duane Allman's guitar parts from Dickey Betts'. The front cover depicts them at one of their many famous performances at the Fillmore East.

Track listing

The Allman Brothers Band:

1. "Don't Want You No More" (Spencer Davis, Edward Hardin)
2. "It's Not My Cross To Bear" (Gregg Allman)
3. "Black Hearted Woman" (Allman)
4. "Trouble No More" (McKinley Morganfield)
5. "Every Hungry Woman" (Allman)
6. "Dreams" (Allman)
7. "Whipping Post" (Allman)

Idlewild South:

8. "Revival" (Dickey Betts)
9. "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" (Allman)
10. "Midnight Rider" (Allman)
11. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Betts)
12. "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon)
13. "Please Call Home" (Allman)
14. "Leave My Blues At Home" (Allman)

Personnel

The Allman Brothers Band

• Duane Allman – lead guitar, slide guitar, acoustic guitar
• Gregg Allman – organ, piano, vocals
• Dickey Betts – lead guitar
• Berry Oakley – bass, vocals
• Butch Trucks – drums, percussion
• Jai Johanny Johanson – drums, congas, percussion

Additional musicians

• Thom Doucette – harmonica, percussion

Production

• Adrian Barber – producer and recording engineer, The Allman Brothers Band
• Tom Dowd – producer, Idlewild South
• Joel Dorn – producer, "Please Call Home"
• Ron Albert, Howie Albert, Jim Hawkins, Bob Liftin – recording engineers, Idlewild South
• Chuck Pulin – cover and liner photos
• Sue Poyneer – album design
• Jean-Charles Costa – liner notes