Beginnings (The Allman Brothers Band album)

Beginnings
Compilation album by
Released1973
Recorded1969–1970
GenreSouthern rock
Length64:08
LabelAtco
ProducerAdrian Barber (tracks 1–7)
Tom Dowd (tracks 8–12, 14)
Joel Dorn (track 13)
The Allman Brothers Band chronology
Eat a Peach
(1972)
Beginnings
(1973)
Brothers and Sisters
(1973)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone [2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]

Beginnings is a 1973 reissue of the Allman Brothers Band's first two albums, The Allman Brothers Band and Idlewild South, made to capitalize on the band's popularity since those records had first come out. Beginnings also includes extensive liner notes by writer Jean-Charles Costa that gave many fans their first coherent view of the band's history, as well as useful guidelines for how to tell Duane Allman's guitar parts from Dickey Betts'. The front cover depicts them at one of their many famous performances at the Fillmore East.

For Beginnings, the band's debut album was remixed by Tom Dowd, replacing Adrian Barber's original mix.

  1. ^ Eder, Bruce. Beginnings at AllMusic
  2. ^ The Allman Brothers Band Album Guide, Rolling Stone
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.