Gregg Allman - Southbound (1969)

Like his brother Duane, Gregg Allman also attempted to record a solo album in 1969, and like Duane's it was shelved by the record company. The brothers' band at the time, Hour Glass, had recorded two albums for Liberty, but they were particularly unhappy with the first, considering it a sell-out and refusing to play songs from it in concert, and while a little bit happier with the second, they still felt constricted by the record company. The band broke up when Duane explicitly told executives at Liberty where they could go, and they threatened to freeze the band, so that they'd be unable to record for any other label for seven years. While Duane moved to Alabama and started doing session work at the Muscle Shoals studios, Gregg stayed behind to appease the label, giving them the rights to a solo album. However, despite recording enough material for the album, Liberty refused to release it, although it did fulfill his contact with the label, enabling him to join Duane in Florida in March 1969 in order to form a new band called The Allman Brothers. Some of Gregg's music has since been added to expanded reissues of the Hour Glass albums, and so with a bit of editing and sequencing we can approximate what that album might have sounded like if Liberty had ever had any intention of releasing it. 'Down In Texas' is an alternate take of the Hour Glass track, 'D-I-V-O-R-C-E' is a cover of the Tammy Wynette song (although it's not as bad as you might think), while 'Southbound' is different from the Allman Brothers' song of the same name. 

Track listing

01 Down In Texas (Version #2)
02 Three Time Loser
03 Southbound
04 Bad Dream
05 It's Not My Cross To Bear
06 Kind Of A Man
07 February 3rd
08 D-I-V-O-R-C-E
09 She Is My Woman
10 God Rest His Soul
11 Apollo 8