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In 1969, music promoter Phil Walden -- who had just created Capricorn Records with his brothers -- traveled to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to recruit a gifted young guitarist named Duane Allman for ...
When Warner Brothers could not successfully negotiate a buyout of the label in 1975, Capricorn made a new distribution deal with PolyGram. [2] In the following year Capricorn's most successful and prolific act, the Allman Brothers Band, would split up. The 1970s recession affected Capricorn record sales, especially later in the decade.
The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969. [3] Its founding members were brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar, lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals), Berry Oakley (bass), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).
Albums released by the label included the Allmans’ Brothers and Sisters, At Fillmore East and Eat a Peach.Singles included the Allmans’ “Ramblin’ Man,” which went to No. 2 on the ...
Grinderswitch’s earliest incarnation began in 1972 when Allman Brothers roadie and guitar tech Joe Dan Petty was looking to put a band together. During this time, Dickey Betts was also attempting to form a band due to the uncertain fate of the Allman Brothers Band after the death of Duane Allman. [2]
“Ricky” Eckstein got a chance to work with music legends when Macon’s Capricorn Records was in its prime. Capricorn Records drew this drummer from LA to Macon. What he remembers about the label
Brothers of the Road is a concert video by the rock group the Allman Brothers Band. It includes songs from two concerts, one at the University of Florida Bandshell in Gainesville, Florida, and one at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey. It also includes several songs from a hotel room jam session, and several songs from an "unplugged ...
Idlewild South is the second studio album by American rock band the Allman Brothers Band.With the exception of one song, the album was produced by Tom Dowd and was released on September 23, 1970 in the United States, by Atco Records and Capricorn Records.