''Reach for the Sky'' is the seventh studio album by the rock group

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, released in 1980. It was the last album to feature drummer

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until his return on the ''

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'' album. ''Reach for the Sky'' was the first Allman Brothers Band album to be released by a label other than

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. It was their second album with

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on guitar and David Goldflies on bass. The band recorded the album at Pyramid Eye Studios in

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, a studio that Scott McClellan founded. The back cover photograph shows the band atop Sunset Rock on Lookout Mountain's western brow in Tennessee.

Track listing

Side one

# "Hell & High Water" (

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) – 3:37 # "Mystery Woman" (

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) – 3:35 # "From the Madness of the West" (Betts) – 6:37 # "I Got a Right to Be Wrong" (Betts) – 3:44

Side two

# "Angeline" (Betts, Johnny Cobb, Mike Lawler) – 3:43 # "Famous Last Words" (Betts,

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) – 2:48 # "Keep On Keepin' On" (Betts, Toler) – 4:11 # "So Long" (Allman, Toler) – 6:54

Personnel

– keyboards, lead vocals *

– guitar, co-lead vocals on 1, lead vocals on 4, 6 *

– guitar *David Goldflies – bass guitar *

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– drums,

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– drums

References

{{Authority control 1980 albums The Allman Brothers Band albums Arista Records albums