Whipping Post (song)

"Whipping Post"
Song by The Allman Brothers Band
from the album The Allman Brothers Band (studio)
At Fillmore East (live)
ReleasedNovember 4, 1969 (studio)
July 6, 1971 (live)
RecordedAugust 7, 1969 (studio)
March 13, 1971 (live)
Genre
Length5:17 (studio)
22:40 (live)
LabelCapricorn Records
Songwriter(s)Gregg Allman
Producer(s)Adrian Barber (studio)
Tom Dowd (live)

"Whipping Post" is a song by The Allman Brothers Band. Written by Gregg Allman, the five-minute studio version first appeared on their 1969 debut album The Allman Brothers Band. The song was regularly played live and was the basis for much longer and more intense performances.[5][6] This was captured in the Allman Brothers' 1971 double live album At Fillmore East,[7] where a 22-minute, 40-second rendition of the song takes up the entire final side.[8][9] It was this recording that garnered "Whipping Post" spots on both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list[10] and Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", which wrote, "the song is best appreciated in the twenty-three-minute incarnation on At Fillmore East."[7]

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