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Reach for the Sky (The Allman Brothers Band album)

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Released
  
August 1980

Artist
  
The Allman Brothers Band

Producer
  
Mike Lawler

Genres
  
Rock music, Southern rock

Length
  
35:09

Release date
  
August 1980

Label
  
Arista Records

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Recorded
  
May 1980 Pyramid Eye Recording Studio, Lookout Mountain, Georgia

Reach for the Sky (1980)
  
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Similar
  
The Allman Brothers Band albums, Southern rock albums

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Reach for the Sky is the seventh studio album by the rock group the Allman Brothers Band, released in 1980. It was the last album to feature drummer Jai Johanny Johanson until his return on the Seven Turns album.

Contents

Reach for the Sky was the first Allman Brothers Band album to be released by a label other than Capricorn Records. It was their second album with Dan Toler on guitar and David Goldflies on bass, and their first studio album to include only songs written by the band members.

The band recorded the album at Pyramid Eye Studios in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, a studio that Scott McClellan founded. The back cover photograph shows the band atop Sunset Rock on Lookout Mountain's western brow in Tennessee.

Side One

  1. "Hell & High Water" (Dickey Betts) - 3:37
  2. "Mystery Woman" (Gregg Allman, Dan Toler) - 3:35
  3. "From the Madness of the West" (Betts) - 6:37
  4. "I Got a Right to be Wrong" (Betts) - 3:44

Side Two

  1. "Angeline" (Betts, Johnny Cobb, Mike Lawler) - 3:43
  2. "Famous Last Words" (Betts, Bonnie Bramlett) - 2:48
  3. "Keep On Keepin' On" (Betts, Toler) - 4:11
  4. "So Long" (Allman, Toler) - 6:54

Personnel

  • Gregg Allman - keyboards, vocals
  • Dickey Betts - guitar, vocals
  • Dan Toler - guitar
  • David Goldflies - bass
  • Butch Trucks - drums, percussion
  • Jai Johanny Johanson - drums
  • Songs

    1Hell & High Water3:37
    2Mystery Woman3:35
    3From the Madness of the West6:38

    References

    Reach for the Sky (The Allman Brothers Band album) Wikipedia