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"Midnight Rider" is a song by the American rock band the Allman Brothers Band. It was the second single from their second studio album, Idlewild South (1970), released on Capricorn Records. The song was primarily written by vocalist Gregg Allman, who first began composing it at a rented cabin outside Macon, Georgia.
Midnight Rider, also known as Midnight Rider: The Gregg Allman Story, [1] is a cancelled American biographical drama film. Director Randall Miller co-wrote the screenplay with Jody Savin, based on the autobiography My Cross to Bear by the singer Gregg Allman. [2] Miller and Savin were also the producers.
Gregg, who had struggled to write in the past, became the band's main songwriter, composing songs such as "Whipping Post" and "Midnight Rider". [44] The group's self-titled debut album was released in November 1969 through Atco and Capricorn Records, [45] but suffered from poor sales. [46]
[18] The Gregg Allman-penned "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" follows, featuring Duane on slide guitar and Oakley's friend Thom Doucette on harmonica. [19] "Midnight Rider" developed quickly and featured lyrics contributed by roadie Robert Payne, who threw out a suggestion to Gregg Allman while together at their equipment warehouse. [17]
Opening the album is a version of "Midnight Rider", which Allman first composed and recorded for the Allman Brothers Band's second album, Idlewild South in 1970. For the new recording, Allman aimed for a "swamp"-like atmosphere, "with the image of moss hanging off the trees, alligators and fog, darkness, [and] witches," he later wrote. [17]
The Essential Allman Brothers Band: The Epic Years is a greatest hits album by the Allman Brothers Band, released in 2004. The album was released by their former label,Epic Records, as part of Sony BMG's The Essential series. It features songs created by the band during their time with Epic Records, spanning from their 1989 reformation until ...
The Syracuse concert was recorded several months after the death of guitarist Duane Allman. It features the other five original members of the Allman Brothers Band – Gregg Allman on keyboards and vocals, Dickey Betts on guitar, Berry Oakley on bass, and Jai Johanny Johanson and Butch Trucks on drums.
As the song also contains an interpolation of "Midnight Rider" by the Allman Brothers Band, that song's co-writers Gregg Allman and Robert Kim Payne are also credited as co-writers. [ 2 ] Charts