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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 .
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]
No Parking on the Dance Floor is an album by American vocal band Midnight Star, released on ... "Night Rider" - (Jeff Cooper, Melvin Gentry, Belinda Lipscomb, B ...
It includes a cover of the Allman Brothers Band's "Midnight Rider," recorded here as a duet with Toby Keith. The cover was released as a single, but did not chart. The cover was released as a single, but did not chart.
The Road Goes On Forever was The Allman Brothers Band's first compilation album, a two-LP set released in 1975.It featured songs from the Allmans' first five albums. In 2001, an expanded edition was released featuring 13 more tracks.
Idlewild South contains two of the band's best-known songs, "Midnight Rider" (later a hit for various artists) and "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", which became one of the band's famous concert numbers. The album was released in September 1970 but again failed to achieve significant success.
In 2015, the song "100 Days, 100 Nights" was used in a FitBit commercial. [27] In 2016, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings appeared in a video covering the Allman Brothers song "Midnight Rider" for Lincoln Motors.
Gregg Allman was 21 years old when the song was first recorded. Its writing dates back to late March 1969, when The Allman Brothers Band was first formed. [11] Gregg had failed to make a name for himself as a musician during a late-1960s stint in Los Angeles, [12] and was on the verge of quitting music altogether when his brother Duane Allman called and said his new band needed a vocalist.