I colored the peach that is floating over the inside gatefold mural of The Allman Brothers Band’s, “Eat a Peach” album. The album’s artwork was created by W. David Powell at Wonder Graphics. The gatefold mural, “featur[es] a fantasy landscape of mushrooms (referencing the psychedelic drug) and fairies, drawn by Powell and J. F. Holmes. ‘It told a story of happy, mystical brotherhood that was receding ever further into fantasy as the band grappled with the tragedy of Duane’s death,’ according to biographer Alan Paul.”
What came to my mind as I snapped the picture is that the floating peach is Duane, headed toward heaven. Gone too soon.
from left side of the mural from right side of the mural
wikipedia says: Eat a Peach is the third studio album by American rock band the Allman Brothers Band. Produced by Tom Dowd, the album was released on February 12, 1972, in the United States by Capricorn Records. Following their artistic and commercial breakthrough with the release of the live album At Fillmore East ([June 27, ]1971), the Allman Brothers Band got to work on their third studio album. Many in the band were struggling, however, with heroin addictions, and checked into rehab to confront these problems. Shortly after leaving rehab, group leader and founder Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident in the band’s home of Macon, Georgia thus making it the final album to feature the guitarist.
“One Way Out” is a blues song first recorded and released in the early-mid-1960s by Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James, an R&B hit under a different name for G.L. Crockett (who also recorded as “G. Davy Crockett”) in the mid-1960s, and then popularized to rock audiences in the early 1970s and onward by The Allman Brothers Band.
This was one of Duane Allman’s last performances. He died in a motorcycle accident on October 29, 1971.
From the caption of this youtube video: The Allman Brothers Band have been playing “One Way Out” in concert from at least February 1971. A live recording was included on their 1972 album Eat a Peach. This was indeed recorded at the Fillmore East, but unlike the March 1971 live material used on the rest of Eat a Peach and At Fillmore East, “One Way Out” was recorded at the venue’s final show on June 27, 1971. There is no “One Way Out” footage at the Fillmore East. So I created a video of this legendary performance from different concerts.
The Allman Brothers Band:
Duane Allman – lead guitar, slide guitar
Gregg Allman – organ, piano, vocals
Dickey Betts – lead guitar
Berry Oakley – bass guitar
Jai Johanny Johanson – drums, congas, timbales
Butch Trucks – drums, tympani
Ain’t but one way out baby, Lord I just can’t go out the door
Ain’t but one way out baby, and Lord I just can’t go out the door
‘Cause there’s a man down there, might be your man I don’t know
Lord you got me trapped a woman, up on the second floor
If I get by this time I won’t be trapped no more
So raise your window baby, I can ease out soft and slow
And Lord, your neighbors, no they won’t be
Talking that stuff that they don’t know
Lord, I’m foolish to be here in the first place
I know some man gonna walk in and take my place
Ain’t no way in the world, I’m going out that front door
‘Cause there’s a man down there, might be your man I don’t know
‘Cause there’s a man down there, might be your man I don’t know
‘Cause there’s a man down there and Lord, it might just happen to be your man
Lord, it just might be your man
Lord, it just a might be your man
Oh baby, I just don’t know
Songwriters:
Marshall E Sehorn /
Elmore James /
Sonny Boy Williamson II
Tao Talk 
I saw the Allman Brothers in concert about 6 times playing with the Grateful Dead and once playing without them.
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I can’t even imagine how cool that was. Did you see them at the Fillmore?? I love the video the guy put together.
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Aww nice. Maybe they meant something sexual, but whenever i see “eat a peach” i think of the Eliot poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
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Being stoners they may have meant it literally. Hey, I watched that movie, “Alex & Emma” last night and adored it. Thank you for the recommendation. It was everything you said it would be ❤
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Lol and yayyy! So glad 😀👍🏻
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I saw them at RFK stadium in Washington DC several times and also at Watkins Glen and the time I saw them without the Grateful Dead was in Trenton, NJ,
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Isn’t Watkins Glen where they had Woodstock? Did they turn it into a concert venue? Question: how far is Newark NJ from NYC? My son and his gf drove there last night to see her sister.
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Watkins Glen and Woodstock are both in upstate New York. Woodstock was a farm and Watkins Glen is a race track. They were both the sites of large concerts with Woodstock happening first and having more groups. Watkins Glen only had the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers and the Band, but it had more people. Newark is right across the Hudson from NYC.
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*only* the Grateful Dead, the Allman Bros, and the Band? and it had more people?? How could they all fit into the racetrack grounds?
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I guess they were better prepared, but this crowd of 600,000 was more than they could handle. The promoters made their money back and more people still kept pouring in and the workers at the gates just waved everyone in and stopped collecting tickets. I drove there with a group of friends in my station wagon and we drove right in with a bag of weed on the dashboard. The stage was real high so people way in the back could see, but that meant that the people up front could not. They made a human ladder and tried climbing up to see better, only to be hosed by the stage hands who did not want them climbing on stage. Most of this group way up front was really spaced out and they took off all of their clothes and wallowed in the mud that was created by the hoses.
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An experience of a lifetime. You are blessed you got to experience it.
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Watkins Glen would have been cool…what a lineup… Grateful Dead, The Band, and the Allman Brothers.
It’s a miracle they went on without Duane…he was the undisputed leader.
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Listening to some more good music! Saw them once in concert in the 90’s would have liked to have seen them back in the day with Duane.
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That song effin kicks butt, just right.
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Peachy! 🙂
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