The Allman Brothers Band - Second Cousins (1973)

As a companion-piece to the Duane Allman post of last week, here's an Allman Brothers album that could have slotted in between 'Brothers and Sisters' and 'Win, Lose Or Draw', to fill the two year gap between those two albums. Following the deaths of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley in quick succession, the band decided to carry on and recruited Lamar Williams to replace Oakley on bass, but chose to use sessions guitarists such as Les Dudek, rather than permanently replace Allman for the 'Brothers And Sisters' recording sessions. They recorded more songs than were needed for the single album, and so these tracks are leftovers from those sessions. A couple of them are as good as songs that made it to the record, while the extended jams were perhaps never intended for release, but they do show the band in a relaxed mood, and have some excellent guitar and organ interplay. I've kept the family theme for the album title, and used the back cover of the released album as a basis for this one.

Track listing 

01 I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
02 Done Somebody Wrong
03 Double Cross
04 A Minor Jam
05 Early Morning Blues