Dickey Betts & Great Southern - Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC Television Theatre, London, Britain, 2-21-1978 | Albums That Should Exist

 

Dickey Betts & Great Southern - Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC Television Theatre, London, Britain, 2-21-1978

Paul says: Here's another album from a big number of recordings I recently discovered of the "Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV show. This one stars Dickey Betts, one of the main singer-songwriters and lead guitarists for the Allman Brothers Band.

At the time of this concert, the Allman Brothers Band had broken up. They'd hit the big time by 1973, and then they were overwhelmed by the usual problems of drugs and ego. They broke up in 1976, and stayed that way until about the summer of 1978. In the meantime, Dickey Betts formed the band Great Southern (after already putting out a solo album in 1974), and released new albums in 1977 and 1978. This concert took place about a month before the release of their 1978 album, "Atlanta's Burning Down," and featured three songs from it, "Leaving Me Again," "Back on the Road," and "Good Time Feeling." The other songs here are songs Betts first did as part of the Allman Brothers Band.

The music is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent. I converted a video file to audio, then broke it into mp3s. The only problem is that the last song, "High Falls," cuts out after only about four minutes. This is a very long song, with the album version being 14 minutes long, so it was just getting started when it ended. 

This album is 51 minutes long.

01 talk by Bob Harris 
02 talk 
03 Leaving Me Again
04 Back on the Road
05 Good Time Feeling
06 Jessica [Instrumental] 
07 Ramblin' Man
08 talk by Bob Harris 
09 Southbound 
10 High Falls [Instrumental]