Track Listing

1. Can't Lose What You Never Had
2. Just Another Love Song
3. Nevertheless
4. Win, Lose or Draw
5. Louisiana Lou and Three Card Monty John
6. High Falls
7. Sweet Mama

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39101 in Music
• Released on: 2003-07-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Import, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

and after this, the patient died . . .
This album marked the end of the second version of the Allman Brothers Band. A close listen reveals they were already on their last legs.

Three good songs emerge, however. "Can't Lose What You Never Had" is as rockin' a hard blues number as they ever recorded. Just a phenomenal performance, makes you wonder what it's doing on such an otherwise lifeless album.

"Win, Lose or Draw" may contain the best lyrics Gregg Allman has ever written, but it suffers from an uncharacteristically weak vocal performance.

"High Falls" is a jazzy instrumental which features a spacey introduction which recalls "Les Brers in A Minor" from Eat a Peach. Chuck Leavell's electric piano is especially noteworthy here.

The rest of the album is filler, and not especially good filler. In fact, "Louisiana Lou" may be the worst song they ever recorded.

I think we've all heard better
If 5 stars is "Live at the Fillmore East", or "Eat a Peach", or the first two studio albums by the Allmans, this album cannot manage more than 3 on a good day.

"Can't Lose What You Never Had" is a good track, very soulful and bluesy. "Just Another Love Song" is kind of weak and silly but Betts' guitar is undeniably beautiful. "Win Lose or Draw," as others have observed...is a good song...some would call it heart-wrenching.

When listening to some of these songs, however, one can't help but think that "something is up"- it just doesn't sound quite right. I think this is so because I remember reading somewhere that the vocals for the track and elsewhere on this album were recorded completely separately since Gregg Allman was in California dating Cher or something. These songs just don't feel like the other great songs by the Allmans...they sound like they were recorded in a shoe box.

Refreshingly, "High Falls" transcends the limitations of this album and those of you who appreciate the extended jam capability of the Allmans will like this.

Tracks 3, 5, and 7 are lackluster, in my opinion but if you liked "Brothers and Sisters" alot, and I'm talking about the country feel, you may appreciate songs like "Nevertheless" and "Louisiana Lou and..." more than I do.

Two stars for two good songs
On the whole, this album is pretty unlistenable except for the opening track and the instrumental "High Falls." It would have been nice to see these two outstanding tracks featured somewhere else, like a compilation ("Dreams" manages a version of "Can't Lose"). Stick with the earlier and/or later work of the Allman Brothers.