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词条 Southern Blood (album)
释义

  1. Background

  2. Composition

  3. Release

  4. Critical reception

  5. Track listing

  6. Personnel

  7. Charts

  8. References

  9. External links

{{Infobox album
| name = Southern Blood
| type = studio album
| artist = Gregg Allman
| cover = Gregg Allman - Southern Blood.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|2017|9|8|mf=yes}}
| recorded = March 2016
| venue =
| studio = FAME Studios (Muscle Shoals, Alabama)
| genre = {{hlist|Southern rock|blues|soul}}
| length =
| label = Rounder
| producer = Don Was
| prev_title = Low Country Blues
| prev_year = 2011
| next_title =
| next_year =
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Southern Blood
| type = studio
| single1 = My Only True Friend
| single1date = July 26, 2017
}}
}}

Southern Blood is the eighth and final studio album by American singer-songwriter Gregg Allman, released on September 8, 2017 by Rounder Records. Following the release of his seventh album, Low Country Blues (2011), Allman continued to tour and released a memoir, My Cross to Bear, in 2012. However, that same year, he was diagnosed with liver cancer. His output and schedule in the intervening years gradually slowed, and Southern Blood, recorded in March 2016, became his final album. He and his backing band recorded the album with producer Don Was at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama over a period of nine days.

The set is heavy on covers, including songs originally performed by Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Tim Buckley and Jackson Browne, who guests on the album's final song, "Song for Adam". The songs were picked as they each held meaning for Allman, and told a story. He had initially planned to include more original songs, but was too ill to complete them. The album's only original song, "My Only True Friend", was co-written by guitarist and bandleader Scott Sharrard, and was released as the album's lead single. Upon its release, Southern Blood attracted critical acclaim.

Background

Southern Blood is Allman's final album, and followed years of health setbacks. Following a liver transplant in 2010, he was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2012 but continued to play music.[1] He had planned to record a sequel of sorts to Low Country Blues, using the backing musicians he recorded with on that album, that did not come to fruition.[2] Southern Blood was initially planned to be Allman's first of all original material, and was tentatively titled All Compositions By Gregg Allman.[3] However, his health problems and touring schedule impeded this, which led to him and manager Michael Lehman picking out songs to cover that held "deep meaning for [him]. When Gregg picked them, he knew where he was in his life's journey. He was already further along with the progression of his disease."[4]

The album was recorded over nine days in March 2016 with producer Don Was at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The album was recorded with his then-current backing band;[4] he enjoyed being able to showcase the talents of his band, which he was enormously proud of.[5] FAME held great history for Allman as one of his first groups, Hour Glass, recorded there, as did his brother Duane as a session musician in the late 1960s. Due to his health, Allman could only work for about four hours—so two songs were recorded each day. Was stated the album subtly crafts a farewell mood: "It was kind of unspoken, but it was really clear we were preparing a final statement, in many ways." Allman did not complete vocal tracks for two finished backing tracks for Freddie King's "Pack It Up" and Leon Russell's "Hummingbird", which were both left off the release. In addition, he had planned to record his harmony overdubs, but was too ill to do so, leading to Buddy Miller taking the role instead.[6] Allman and Was had discussed creating an album with the same spirit as Laid Back (1973), Allman's debut solo album.[5]

Composition

Despite the album's posthumous release, producer Don Was was reluctant to call Southern Blood "an album about dying [...] Gregg was explaining his life and making sense of it, both for the fans who stood with him for decades, and for himself." The album's opening song, "My Only True Friend", carries themes of time running out. Allman repeats the lyric "I hope you're haunted by the music of my soul, when I'm gone" throughout the song.[7] He co-wrote the song with his bandleader, Scott Sharrard, who secretly wrote the song in the voice of Gregg's late brother, Duane Allman, speaking to him.[6] The rest of the album is composed of cover songs, beginning with "Once I Was", originally performed by Tim Buckley. Allman would often sing the song when with Sharrard, who urged him to record it. Allman was initially unsure about doing a version of the Grateful Dead's "Black Muddy River", as he felt his personal writing style was so different from the group, but warmed to it when recording it.[6]

Allman chose to cover "Blind Bats and Swamp Rats" by Johnny Jenkins because Duane had once played with him.[8] The album closes with "Song for Adam", written by Allman's longtime friend Jackson Browne, who also provides harmony vocals on the track. Allman previously recorded a demo of the song in 1974; it was included on the 1997 compilation An Anthology.[9] He related the song's lyrics to the death of Duane. He got emotional when singing the lyric "Still it seems he stopped singing in the middle of his song," and was unable to finish it; it appears on the final album in an incomplete form.[6] Ronald Hart of Billboard felt the album contained a modern country music sound: "you can’t exactly figure out if it's the influence of such acolytes as Eric Church and Jamey Johnson on Allman, or the other way around."[5]

Release

Southern Blood was set originally for a January 2017 release,[10] but was delayed to due to Allman's health. He then chose an early September release date, as he did not want the album to compete with bigger-name artists who typically release albums later in the year. Allman spent the last night before he died approving final mixes for Southern Blood. He died on May 27, 2017.[8]

Upon the album's release, three live events, titled Southern Blood: Celebrating Gregg Allman, were held featuring friends and associates of Allman discussing the album in three of Allman's favorite cities. The first was held on September 7, 2017 at the Grammy Museum's Clive Davis Theater in Los Angeles, and the second at the Big House Museum in Macon, Georgia. The Macon event attracted hundreds of fans, and the mayor of Macon, Robert Reichert, proclaimed Allman's December 8 birthday as Gregg Allman Day in the city.[11] The third event is set for Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Ford Theater in Nashville, Tennessee as a part of Americanafest.[12]

Critical reception

{{Album ratings
| MC = 82/100[13]
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[21]
| rev2 = American Songwriter
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[22]
| rev3 = The Independent
| rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[23]
| rev4 = Newsday
| rev4Score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}[24]
| rev5 = Rolling Stone
| rev5Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[25]
| rev6 = USA Today
| rev6Score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}[26]
}}Southern Blood received critical acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 82 out of 100, which indicates "universal acclaim" based on six reviews.[13] AllMusic's Thom Jurek considered it "almost perfect; there isn't a better final album Allman could have made."[14] Hal Horowitz from American Songwriter dubbed it "an exceptional work and arguably Allman’s finest non-Brothers release."[15] Scott Stroud of the Associated Press wrote that "the album soars with arrangements built to spotlight Allman’s singing [...] it reminds us of what a singular talent we just lost."[16] Jim Allen from NPR called it "the kind of farewell every rock 'n' lifer hopes to make."[17]

Andy Gill at The Independent gave the album four stars out of five and praised "Allman's weatherbeaten growl for every ounce of melancholy retrospection and road-weary resignation."[18] Bob Doerschuk, writing for USA Today, similarly singled out his vocal performance, commenting, "Allman’s voice delivers in peak form. If this were the debut of a new singer on the rise, critics would laud his control of nuance, his expressiveness and ability to get inside a lyric."[19] Steve Knopper from Newsday felt the record "lacks the sharp hunger of early Allmans classics or the blissed-out soul of his recent work, but Southern Blood has a lean, bluesy persistence."[20] Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone dubbed the album a "moving farewell statement," praising its heavy themes while also complimenting its "laid-back generosity that recalls Allman's kindest Seventies work."[21]

Track listing

{{Track listing
| title1 = My Only True Friend
| writer1 = {{hlist|Gregg Allman|Scott Sharrard}}
| length1 = 6:16
| title2 = Once I Was
| writer2 = {{hlist|Tim Buckley|Larry Beckett}}
| length2 = 3:56
| title3 = Going Going Gone
| writer3 = Bob Dylan
| length3 = 4:29
| title4 = Black Muddy River
| writer4 = {{hlist|Jerry Garcia|Robert Hunter}}
| length4 = 4:37
| title5 = I Love the Life I Live
| writer5 = Willie Dixon
| length5 = 3:31
| title6 = Willin'
| writer6 = Lowell George
| length6 = 3:36
| title7 = Blind Bats and Swamp Rats
| writer7 = Jack Avery
| length7 = 4:32
| title8 = Out of Left Field
| writer8 ={{hlist|Spooner Oldham|Dan Penn}}
| length8 = 4:09
| title9 = Love Like Kerosene
| writer9 = Sharrard
| length9 = 4:17
| title10 = Song for Adam
|note10 = featuring Jackson Browne
| writer10 = Jackson Browne
| length10 = 6:21
}}{{Track listing
| headline = Bonus tracks
| title11 = I Love the Life I Live
|note11 = Live from the Clay Center, Charleston, West Virginia, May 6, 2016
| writer11 = Dixon
| length11 = 5:24
| title12 = Love Like Kerosene
|note12 = Live from the Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1, 2016
| writer12 = Sharrard
| length12 = 7:10
}}

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[22]

Locations
  • Recorded at Fame Recording Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
  • Additional engineering at Blackbird Studios, Nashville, Tennessee and The Hut, Hollywood, California
  • Mixed at Mix This!, Los Angeles, California
  • Mastered at Capitol Mastering Studios, Hollywood, California
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The Gregg Allman Band
  • Gregg Allman – vocals, guitar, Hammond B3 organ
  • Scott Sharrard – guitar, music director
  • Steve Potts – drums
  • Ronald Johnson – bass guitar
  • Peter Levin – keyboards, piano, Wurlitzer, Fender Rhodes, vibraphone
  • Marc Franklin – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Jay Collins – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute
  • Art Edmaiston – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
  • Marc Quinones – percussion
Additional musicians
  • Greg Leisz – pedal steel guitar (2, 3, 6, 8, 10)
  • Buddy Miller – harmony vocals (1-4, 6, 8)
  • The McCrary Sisters – backing vocals (3, 4, 6-8)
  • Jackson Browne – harmony vocals (10)
  • Art Edmaiston – horn arrangement (8)
  • Jay Collins – horn arrangement (1, 3, 6, 9)
  • Marc Franklin horn arrangement (2, 4)
Production
  • Don Srygley - Head Recording Engineer[23][24]
  • Howard Willing – additional engineering
  • Tony Fagenson – additional engineering
{{col-2}}
  • Jimmy Hole – design
  • Ivy Skoff – production coordinator
  • Michael Lehman – management, executive producer
  • Eliza Levy – executive producer
  • John Virant – executive producer
  • Devon Allman – liner notes
  • Layla Allman – liner notes
  • Shannon Allman – liner notes
  • Ian Sefchick – mastering
  • Bob Clearmountain – mixing
  • Sergio Ruelas Jr. – mixing assistant
  • Vincent Castiglia – insert painting
  • Teresa Earnest – photography
  • Matt Butler – photography
  • Don Was – producer, liner notes
  • Rachel Jones – production assistant
  • Rodney Hall – Assistant [23]
  • John Gifford III – Assistant [23]
  • Spencer Coats - Assistant [23]
  • James Van De Bogert – tech support
  • Josh Bennett – tech support
  • Tim Wright – tech support
  • David "Vid" Sutherland – tour manager, coordinator
{{col-end}}

Charts

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Chart (2017)Peak
position
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[25] 71

References

1. ^{{cite news|author=Russ Bynum and Kristin M. Hall|title=Gregg Allman, Southern rock trailblazer who led Allman Brothers Band, dies at 69|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-gregg-allman-dead-20170527-story.html|date=May 27, 2017|access-date=July 26, 2017|work=Chicago Tribune}}
2. ^{{Cite news|url=http://radio.com/2015/07/20/gregg-allman-on-his-new-band-the-allman-brothers-band-and-the-confederate-flag/|title=Gregg Allman on His New Band, the Allman Brothers Band and the Confederate Flag|last= Ives |first=Brian|date=July 20, 2015|publisher=Radio.com|access-date=July 26, 2017}}
3. ^{{cite news|title=Gregg Allman will record next album in Muscle Shoals|url=http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/01/gregg_allman_will_record_next.html|author= Haley Laurence |date=January 4, 2016|accessdate=July 26, 2017|publisher=AL.com}}
4. ^{{cite news|title=An Interview with Gregg Allman: On His New Album, Alabama, And Good Vibes|url=http://www.theaquarian.com/2016/07/20/an-interview-with-gregg-allman-on-his-new-album-alabama-and-good-vibes/|first= Carmen|last= Triola|date=July 20, 2016|access-date=July 26, 2017|work=The Aquarian}}
5. ^1 2 {{cite news|title='Blood' Runs Deep: A Look Inside Gregg Allman's Final Studio LP|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7950233/gregg-allman-souther-blood-final-album-interview|first=Ronald|last=Hart |date=September 6, 2017|access-date=September 8, 2017|work=Billboard}}
6. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news|title=Inside Gregg Allman's Musical Farewell|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-gregg-allmans-final-album-southern-blood-w494132|first=David|last=Browne |date=July 26, 2017|access-date=July 26, 2017|work=Rolling Stone}}
7. ^{{cite news|title=Gregg Allman's Posthumous 'My Only True Friend' Ain't Just Another Road Song|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/07/26/539261952/gregg-allmans-posthumous-my-only-true-friend-aint-just-another-road-song|first=Tom|last=Moon |date=July 27, 2016|access-date=August 21, 2017|publisher=NPR}}
8. ^1 {{cite news|title=Gregg Allman Says Goodbye|work=Garden and Gun|url=http://gardenandgun.com/feature/gregg-allman-says-goodbye/|accessdate=September 18, 2017|author=Matt Hendrickson|date=October 1, 2017}}
9. ^{{Cite AV media notes |title=One More Try: An Anthology |year=1997|type=liner notes |publisher=Polygram Records}}
10. ^{{cite news|title=Gregg Allman talks life after Allman Brothers ahead of Jones Beach stop|url=http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/gregg-allman-talks-life-after-allman-brothers-ahead-of-jones-beach-stop-1.12069508|first=Steve|last=Knopper |date=July 20, 2016|access-date=July 26, 2017|work=Newsday}}
11. ^{{cite news|title=Hundreds gather for Gregg Allman's final album release|url=http://www.13wmaz.com/news/local/hundreds-gather-for-gregg-allmans-final-album-release/472943509|date=September 10, 2017|access-date=September 13, 2017|publisher=WMAZ}}
12. ^{{cite news|title=Gregg Allman Tribute Events Planned Around Final LP, 'Southern Blood'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/gregg-allman-tribute-events-planned-around-final-lp-w497704|first=Ryan|last=Reed |date=August 14, 2017|access-date=September 13, 2017|work=Rolling Stone}}
13. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/southern-blood/gregg-allman|title=Reviews for Southern Blood by Gregg Allman|work=Metacritic|publisher=CBS Interactive|accessdate=September 8, 2017}}
14. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/southern-blood-mw0003081499|title=Southern Blood – Gregg Allman |work=AllMusic |publisher=All Media Network |author=Jurek, Thom|accessdate=September 8, 2017}}
15. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://americansongwriter.com/2017/09/gregg-allman-southern-blood/|title=Gregg Allman: Southern Blood|work=American Songwriter|first=Hal|last=Horowitz|date=September 5, 2017|accessdate=September 8, 2017}}
16. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/review-gregg-allman-says-goodbye-with-heart-and-spirit/2017/09/06/b695292a-9343-11e7-8482-8dc9a7af29f9_story.html|title=Review: Gregg Allman says goodbye with heart and spirit|agency=Associated Press|work=The Washington Post|first=Steve|last=Knopper|date=September 6, 2017|accessdate=September 8, 2017}}
17. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/547045228/first-listen-gregg-allman-southern-blood|title=Review: Gregg Allman, 'Southern Blood'|publisher=NPR|first=Jim|last=Allen|date=August 31, 2017|accessdate=September 13, 2017}}
18. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-reviews-lcd-soundsystem-american-dream-jake-bugg-hearts-that-strain-mogwai-every-country-s-son-a7922246.html|title=Album reviews: LCD Soundsystem - American Dream, Jake Bugg - Hearts That Strain, Mogwai - Every Country’s Sun|work=The Independent|first=Andy|last=Gill|date=August 31, 2017|accessdate=September 8, 2017}}
19. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2017/09/06/gregg-allman-review-southern-blood/633329001/|title=Gregg Allman's final album, 'Southern Blood,' is a brilliant commentary on leaving the world|work=USA Today|first=Bob|last=Doerschuk|date=September 6, 2017|accessdate=September 8, 2017}}
20. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/southern-blood-review-gregg-allman-s-fine-farewell-1.14115269|title=‘Southern Blood’ review: Gregg Allman’s fine farewell|work=Newsday|first=Steve|last=Knopper|date=September 6, 2017|accessdate=September 8, 2017}}
21. ^1 {{cite news|title=Review: Gregg Allman's Farewell Album Vividly Steeped in His Own History|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/review-greggallmanssouthern-blood-w502283|first=Jon|last=Dolan |date=September 11, 2017|access-date=September 13, 2017|work=Rolling Stone}}
22. ^{{cite AV media notes|title=Southern Blood|others=Gregg Allman|work=Rounder Records|type=CD liner|year=2017|location=Nashville|id= 1166100055}}
23. ^1 2 3 https://www.dropbox.com/s/1m7qa1pja4npbk4/43855_04_BookRevs_lo.pdf?dl=0
24. ^https://www.allmusic.com/album/southern-blood-mw0003081499/credits
25. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.promusicae.es/listas/semana/3508-%C3%81lbumes-semana-37-2017|title=Top 100 Álbumes — Semana 37: del 08.09.2017 al 14.09.2017|publisher=Productores de Música de España|language=Spanish|accessdate=September 21, 2017}}

External links

  • Official website
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