Allman has experienced a double renaissance over the past year. After undergoing a liver transplant, he got back to work and released his first album this century, the well received Low Country Blues. Its success would be a factor in his touring on this side of the Atlantic again but his set-list here was as close to a complete career overview as reasonable onstage time would allow, with Allman Brothers favourites such as Blind Willie McTell’s Statesboro Blues and Gregg’s own Whipping Post included alongside mid-period Allman songs like I’m No Angel.
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Gregg Allman, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
It was a multiple-Kleenex gig for Gregg Allman on Wednesday and while the sight of one of rock music's great wild men gingerly reaching up onto his Hammond organ's Leslie cabinet for another paper hankie doesn't quite fit with the image of old, Allman delivered the kind of celebration of Southern States culture with which he and his late brother, Duane, earned their reputations.
