One Way Out

Allman Brothers Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 23, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Sanctuary Records
• ASIN: B0001JXOUI
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,521 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Statesboro Blues

2. Don't Keep Me Wonderin'

3. Midnight Rider

4. Rockin' Horse

5. Desdemona

6. Trouble No More

7. Wasted Words

8. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

9. Instrumental Illness

Disc: 2

1. Ain't Wastin' Time No More

2. Come and Go Blues

3. Woman Across the River

4. Old Before My Time

5. Every Hungry Woman

6. High Cost of Low Living

7. Worried Down With the Blues

8. Dreams

9. Whipping Post

Editorial Reviews

Reissue. Two CD live release from the classic Rock band, recorded at the Beacon Theater in March of 2003. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Show, Great recording!, October 9, 2004

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applewood (everywhere and nowhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Way Out (Audio CD)

This is the same show captured so well on the LIVE AT THE BEACON THEATRE DVD (March 25-26, 2003). (That, by the way, is an excellent 5 star production showing a serious and renewed ABB, including bonus interviews with them all that reveal them at the peak of their careers). What the DVD interviews allude to, but is never spelled out very clearly, is that these are different versions of the songs recorded on the DVD. I'm not sure if they all are, but on casual listening they do sound different. And four songs on this CD are not on the DVD ("Trouble No More", "Wasted Words", "Every Hungry Woman" & "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"), as well as ten songs appear on the DVD but not here, (ironically "One Way Out" appears as the encore on the DVD but doesn't even make it onto this CD to be the title track!). So there is plenty of reason to get BOTH the CD and DVD versions of this great show.

Obviously, my first impressions of this CD are influenced by having watched the DVD first, but the experience of only hearing them play here is if anything more intense (or is it just that the versions included here are more intense?!)

Needless to say the Allman Bros are hot here, a renewed, inspired and sober bunch of masterful musicians. Gregg's vocals sometimes come across a bit thin (miking or mix?), but his playing is delicate and strong, the percussion/drumming from the trio of Jaimo, Butch and Marc is tight, strong, playful and tasteful, the funky fluid bass playing from Oteil comes across more clearly here than in the DVD (perhaps because that showed him very little). Then there are the guitars..... on the DVD the visually dominant Warren takes center stage but shares the leads with obvious delight with the young and able Trucks, here his presence is less obvious (more blended?), and it is the guitar of the visually subdued Derek that jumps out of the mix and really tears it up. It's like he's jamming on a chain saw! (Can the 13 minute "Desdemona" get any hotter?!) The intensity of the tag team and shared leads is a beautiful thing.

This was a magical set of shows. I'm just happy to see and hear the Brothers back in top form and having the time of their lives playing for us (and each other and themselves...).

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Worthy Live Album, May 1, 2004

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John Terry "musiclikerguy" (Kansas City, Mo) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Way Out (Audio CD)

Could there possibly be a reason for another live Allman Brothers release? The answer to that question is "absolutely"! Springtime at the Beacon Theatre is an annual ritual and "One Way Out" catches them on fire. I can't say enough about the guitar tandem of Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks. A lot of bands can't claim even one guitarist who can match Haynes and Trucks lick for lick. The best reason for buying this album is the live versions of the "Hittin The Note" material. "Desdemona" and "Instrumental Illness" stand out in particular. Dip your hands in your pockets and shell out the coins for this one. It'll prove to you that the Allman Brothers are still one of the greatest American bands.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An awesome album..., April 4, 2004

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michael byrne (Lexington, Ky United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Way Out (Audio CD)

Last summer the ABB had some extra "instant live" CD's from their summer tour, which they sold through their website. I got 4, so I knew how hot this current incarnation of the band is. In spite of that, this collection still blew me away. This is as close to "Live at Fillmore East" as any live recording any subsequent version of the ABB has ever put out. Its not as good as LAFE, but it would be about impossible to be that good. But this is very good stuff here.

The chemistry between Warren and Derek right now is very similar to Duane and Dickey. This is probably my favorite all time version of Dreams, and this is my second favorite "Whipping Post", after the Fillmore East version.

The rythmn section of Butch, Jaimo, and Marc has never sounded better. Just an awesome, rolling, undulating sea of rythmn providing a foundation for Warren and Dereks lead guitar improvisations. Derek is the closest thing to Duane on slide that the world has seen since Duane passed, and Warren is spectacular.

Greggs vocals have never sounded better, and the new material from the last few years is right up there with the Allmans classics of old.

This current group still has a touch of the country sound now and then that they had with Dickey, but not as much.(On this album: "Old Before My Time" and "High Cost of Low Living", "Midnight Rider", "Come and Go Blues") That might be a drawback to a die hard Dickey fan, but the band now has actually gone back to the original sound of the group, prior to "Brothers and Sisters" when Dickey really came to the forefront as a songwriter and singer.