One Way Out (album)

''One Way Out'' is a live album by the Allman Brothers Band. It is the first live album to feature Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks together, although both had appeared separately on previous live albums. It was recorded during the group's annual Beacon Theatre run in New York City on March 25 and 26, 2003, and released a year later. This would be the final album released by the band before they disbanded in 2014.

The live version of "Instrumental Illness" was nominated for Best Rock Instrumental Performance at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, but it lost to "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" by Brian Wilson.

Reception

Writer Robert Christgau awarded the album an A− rating, calling it the Allman Brothers Band's "best live album of their career because both age and youth suit them, and because ..they're better now than they ever were". Thom Jurek, writing for AllMusic, praised the album's production, comparing the sound quality to that of a live performance and writing that the "listener is in the mix, not in front of it". Jurek additionally stated that the album "is essential for anyone interested in rock & roll".

In an article for All About Jazz, C. Michael Bailey commented on the novelty of the music, favorably comparing the Allman Brothers Band to others in the jam band movement, 1970s pop radio, and American rock band Little Feat. Bailey specifically praised the band for "completely reconstitut nginto units making new music as opposed to simply recapitulating the old". In a separate article for the same publication, Doug Collette called the album "without doubt the document of a truly great rock and roll ensemble playing with as much fire as finesse", and commented on the collaborative nature of the album's production and its improvisational style.

Writing for ''PopMatters'', Adam Williams wrote that ''One Way Out'' is "flawless in all respects" and that "all doubts are dispelled as to who the finest live jammers are ..the Allmans and the Beacon have become synonymous with extended play brilliance."

Track listing

Disc one
#"Statesboro Blues" (Blind Willie McTell) – 5:22
#"Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" (Gregg Allman) – 4:12
#"Midnight Rider" (Gregg Allman, Robert Payne) – 3:16
#"Rockin' Horse" (Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes, Allen Woody, Jack Pearson) – 10:12
#"Desdemona" (Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes) – 13:27
#" Trouble No More" (Muddy Waters) – 3:45
#"Wasted Words" (Gregg Allman) – 7:51
#"Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" ( Sonny Boy Williamson) – 9:01
#"Instrumental Illness" (Warren Haynes, Oteil Burbridge) – 16:42 (with 5:36 drum solo)

Disc two
#"Ain't Wastin' Time No More" (Gregg Allman) – 6:29
#"Come and Go Blues" (Gregg Allman) – 6:03
#"Woman Across the River" (Bettye Crutcher, Allen Jones) – 6:38
#"Old Before My Time" (Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes) – 5:37
#"Every Hungry Woman" (Gregg Allman) – 5:21
#"High Cost of Low Living" (Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes, Jeff Anders, Ronnie Burgin) – 8:42
#"Worried Down with the Blues" (Warren Haynes, John Jaworowicz) – 7:58
#"Dreams" (Gregg Allman) – 12:49
#"Whipping Post" (Gregg Allman) – 15:31

Personnel

The Allman Brothers Band
* Gregg Allman – Hammond B-3 organ, piano, coustic guitar, lead vocals
* Jaimoe – drums (left side)
* Butch Trucks – drums (right side)
* Warren Haynes – lead and slide guitars (right side), lead and background vocals
* Marc Quinones – congas, percussion, background vocals
* Oteil Burbridge – bass guitar
* Derek Trucks – lead and slide guitars (left side)

Production
* Producers: Michael Barbiero and Warren Haynes
* Recording and mixing: Michael Barbiero
* Assistant engineers: Mike Scielzi, Joel Singer
* Tape operator: Hardi Kamsani
* Stage: Brandon Karp
* Mastering: George Marino

Charts

References

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2004 live albums
Sanctuary Records live albums
The Allman Brothers Band live albums