Wasting no time on background, Paul takes up with Greg and Duane Allman in early 1968, at which point they’d gotten a record deal in L.A. Paul mainly talks to fans of the band, so he doesn’t tap into an entirely representative pool of respondents…but it’s a biography, not an opinion poll. When it’s working well, reading One Way Out can feel like listening to intra-band conversations. Author Alan Paul provides an occasional paragraph and he shapes conversations, but his voice doesn’t dominate the book. Oral history allows an author to recede into the background and let the story’s subjects narrate. The group’s debut album came out in 1969, 45 years ago. Does oral history get at the story of an American rock institution, the Allman Brothers?Ī Georgia-born, blues-indebted band, the Allmans have weathered more than their fair share of tragedy, but they manage to persevere, year after year.
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