Les Brers

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Les Brers In A Minor ("The Brothers In A Minor.")

This is an instrumental written by Allman Brothers guitarist Dickey Betts and was one of the first songs the band recorded without Duane Allman who had died in a motorcycle accident about 4 months before this was released.

Berry Oakley's bass line is prominent in the song. Oakley died later that year in a motorcycle accident similar to the one that killed Duane Allman.

Taken from "Eat a Peach"

From the Wik:

Eat a Peach is a 1972 double album by the American Southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band; it was the last to include founding member and lead slide guitar player Duane Allman, who was killed in a motorcycle accident while the album was being recorded.

This album came close on the heels of their breakthrough At Fillmore East set and featured live tracks that did not make it onto that album, including boogie classic "One Way Out" and two entire album sides devoted to "Mountain Jam", a 33-minute improvisation based around Donovan's song "There Is a Mountain."

The remainder of the album was recorded in-studio and served to cement the Brothers' reputation as innovative Southern rockers. Several tracks featured a new emphasis on more lyrical acoustic work, notably on "Melissa" and the guitar classic "Little Martha." The lilting "Blue Sky" became an album-oriented rock radio staple, while "Ain't Wastin' Time No More" served as both a quiet generational anthem and a personal statement of purpose by the band in the face of Duane's death.

The widespread story regarding the origin of the album's title, that the truck involved in Duane Allman's fatal motorcycle accident was a peach truck, is not correct; the truck involved was actually a flatbed lumber truck. The name actually came from something Duane said in an interview shortly before he was killed. When asked what he was doing to help the anti-war effort, Duane replied, "There ain't no revolution, it's evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace; the two-legged Georgia variety." The album's name was originally slated to be The Kind We Grow in Dixie, and the artwork for the album showed a peach. Band members were dissatisfied with the name, and the image suggested Duane's quote instead.

The album art was selected by Rolling Stone magazine in 1991 as one of the 100 greatest album covers of all time. The album cover was done by Flor Noi (James Flournoy Holmes), who lives in Atlanta Georgia.

Allman Brothers fans sometimes speculate that Duane Allman's reference was to T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917):

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each

In the context of Eliot's familiar poem, the peach represents the sensuous immediate realities of full-blooded life (due to the associations between peaches and sexuality), which the album's title Eat a Peach dares one to embrace.

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