THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND - Jessica | FIRST TIME REACTION

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[@user-pf7jm9go6o]

We lost our daughter Jessica at 29, sadly. Always loved this song and it's my ring tone for many years. A beautiful tribute to Dickey Betts' daughter and from me to mine.

[@MisterWondrous]

Sad to hear about your daughter, but what a beautiful song to remember her by!

[@jessicalee7119]

I'm sorry for the loss of your daughter ~ 💜

[@sharonporter7132]

She must have been a beautiful daughter with a beautiful soul. ❤❤

[@xJRx77]

Jessica is one of those "cruisin' songs"! Awesome when you're driving a long distance and this comes on!

[@Blue-qr7qe]

When you find something in the music that pleases you, that smile growing across your face is such a great thing to see. 'Love it !!!

[@Papabob1957]

This song has always made me smile and feel good inside, and thinking outside hanging out with my old friends on a warm summer day

[@ptournas]

Can't go wrong with the Allman Brothers. I got to see them live only twice. The first time was in May of 1969, when they were a new band playing their first gig out of the south as the opening act for "The Velvet Underground" at the Boston Tea Party. Of course they blew everyone's mind. The last time I saw them was at the Summerthing Concert Series on Boston Commons in August of 1971, sadly just a few months before Duane's untimely death. They were among the most impressive concerts of my life.

[@jonathansmith3742]

Its a beautiful thing. Kinda makes your Soul Shine. Soul Shine is not instrumental but its damn sure better than rain.

[@YeungSze]

Anyone who has watched BBC television car show 🚗 Top Gear would recognise this tune 😄

[@steveturner3999]

Miss my Gear Heads so much! Always loved hearing it open up for Clarkson, May and Hamster!

[@Brandi6666]

I know all the words to this great tune😮

[@miconis123]

I'd love a 1/2 hour version of this jam

[@Kate-it7cn]

How many things can you, with repeated exposure, not tire of? 1980 for me and still get goosebumps!

[@lathedauphinot6820]

Jaimoe and Dickey Betts are alive. The rest are gone, but here’s something cool: Gregg’s son Devon, Dickey Betts’ son Duane, Berry Oakley’s son Berry Jr, and Chuck Leavell, who toured for years with The Rolling Stones, formed The Allman Betts Band a few years ago. Dickey occasionally shows up and plays with them, and this year they’re all touring as The Allman Betts Family Revival with Dickey and Jaimoe. One last thing: Reese Wynans, who played with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble until Stevie died and later with Joe Bonamassa, was the original keyboardist when the Allman Brothers Band first decided to form a band, but Duane Allman wanted his brother as singer, so he was eased out. He played with them when Gregg couldn’t, and he played the 50th Anniversary show after Gregg’s death.

[@andylawson87]

That's the great Chuck Leavell on piano. He would go on to be the touring keyboardist for the Rolling Stones.

[@timr5490]

Makes Jezza, Hamster and Captain Slow come to mind.

[@samuellord8576]

Great choice and reaction Shawn! Now to REALLY hear what they can do, listen to their masterpiece, another instrumental: “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” recorded live at Fillmore East in 1971. This is often cited as the greatest recording of a live rock performance ever. Thanks and blessings!

[@samuelmregister]

seconded!

[@lloydanderson1486]

Allman Brothers is a deep Rabbit Hole. Anything from Filmore East is Magic

[@johnharkness7114]

When Leavell's piano comes in strong in the middle there, it always reminds me a bit of the Peanut's piano. Just a lot of happiness packed into a very tight yet totally relaxed masterpiece

[@joelliebler5690]

Yes indeed!

[@brotherbob3569]

You nailed it

[@garysteinert8040]

I can play the piano solo note for note… on my dashboard.

[@plantfeeder6677]

Once knew a girl named Jessica. When I met her I told her she was a song. She didn't know I meant the song Jessica but boy, if you ever meet a Jessica, that's the line to use😅 Brothers and Sisters is a great great album and Southbound is another great tune off of it.

[@jameswattles7341]

Great reaction, Great song, Great band . great Album Allman Brothers "Brother and Sister"

[@jameswattles7341]

If you haven't Heard Ramblin Man that's a famous Allman Brothers radio song. Side Bar on instrumentals Joe Satriani "Always with you Always with me" is an absolute Butte

[@johnathanstruble1064]

The bass line in this song is driving .

[@beare55]

After Duane Allman's passing they were always a great band, but never the same band. Great song post Duane.....

[@SusanW714]

This is one of those Feel Better songs! ❤

[@jessicalee7119]

In 1973 I was I was 16 years old and NO one had my name ~ JESSICA! SO when this song came out I was Thrilled! (Jessica is the name of Allman Brothers guitarist Dickey Betts' daughter.) They also did a song, Melissa 1972 ~ my best friends name! Great memories of this band ~ I'm No Angel, is one of my favs!

[@rk41gator]

Such a tight jam band that gets the best grooves going, then they throw on those superb solos. Lip-smackin' good!

[@michaelescareno7048]

No Duane as he had already passed when this was released. Dickey Betts is the guitarist on this. This piano player was Chuck Leavell, who has been the keyboardist for the Rolling Stones for many years. Gregg Allman is on Hammond B3 organ. This was played on FM radio quite a bit when it came out. I saw them play this live in 1976.

[@matthewoconnor5838]

Everything by the ABB is special.

[@salmuscles]

no Duane on this .... dickey wrote this for his young daughter at that time ...chuck leavell joined the band and is playing the piano 🎹...

[@bradsense7431]

This is a driving song for sure. Have you done In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed from the Live At Fillmore East LP? Chuck Leavell has played in Rolling Stones for many years now.

[@myownchannel247]

This great instrumental was also written by Dickey Betts who was inspired by watching his young daughter Jessica playing ☺️ of course that’s him on guitar Chuck Leavell on piano, one of the best ( he also was on Clapton’s Unplugged album). Sadly Duane Allman had already died when this came out

[@algrap1954]

Thank you for acknowledging that Duane had already passed and was not on this album.

[@user-bh5jv8hi3b]

Chuck Leavell at his best with his Piano solo on "Old Love" from Clapton's Unplugged album always kills me especially when Chuck does this beautiful run on the Piano during his solo & guitarist Andy Fairweather Lowe turns toward Chuck with this "THAT was AMAZING !" look and when you can do that to the level of musicians in that band , that is saying something .

[@benntura]

I love this song. It’s also a great road song.

[@Grendelbc]

I've always been a big Allman Bros. fan. This is a great tune.

[@user-cb1og8pc7n]

Thats little Jessica on the album cover. The drummers daughter, he watched her dancing around and he played the music according to her dancing.

[@williethebeerman]

On piano, Chuck leavell. Chuck Is cool dude. He is a tree farmer (google Chuck Leavell tree farmer and waste an hour and a half watching his documentary) he has also been the music director for some band called The Rolling Stones since 1982. Also check out an amazing acoustic version of Tumbling dice. it's just Chuck playing piano with Mick, Keith, and Ronnie Wood singing.

[@bluesrock1]

That's Chuck Leavell on the piano. Chuck was brought in to help fill the massive hole left in the band's sound after Duane was killed. He's been one of the most renowned keyboard players in R&R. He's been the Musical Director and keyboard player for the Rolling Stones since 1982.

[@KevinRCarr]

One of my handful of absolute favorite Allman Bros. tracks. Enjoyed watching you enjoy and respond. You can search KZbin for Django Reinhart and see videos of him playing.

[@joelliebler5690]

Among my absolute favorite instrumental song or any kind of song. Put it on as you are either driving down the highway or just laying in the grass on a beautiful sunny day with your eyes closed and daydreaming!okay Shawn now you need to react to either In Memory of Elizabeth Reed or Pegasus by The Allman Brothers!

[@ericanderson8886]

More Dickey Betts, talk about a feel good song.

[@friscocoonsliscano]

Excellent ❤as always RIP 🙏 Allman bros thanks for your music

[@intothesunset3]

Love this song♥Great reaction! I hope you will look into Django Reinhardt's music sometime...he influenced Chet Atkins, who was so important also and influenced Mark Knopfler. Chet and Mark played Django's instrumental song "Tears" together on their album 'Neck and Neck.'

[@tresianyfb5865]

Top Gears theme song 😊

[@yazmon4515]

Shawn, when you said that you had only reacted to a couple of instrumentals, I immediately thought of a couple that you would probably enjoy by the famed rock guitarist, Eric Johnson. I first heard Eric when the FM station in my town played his song 'Righteous'. I loved that tune so much I had to run out and buy the album and there heard his award winning song, 'Cliffs of Dover', which is truly one of the greatest rock guitar instrumentals of all time. Both these EJ pieces are worthy of a listen.

[@custardflan]

This appears in the movie Field of Dreams, as I recall. Perfrect for driving through the cornfields of Iowa.

[@user-cb1og8pc7n]

Thank you so much for the info on the lyrics, my favorite of the Allman Brothers. Duane passed away do to a tragic motorcycle accident. Greg married Cher some years after.

[@bobschenkel7921]

"Jessica" had a second life after all it's time on the radio, as the opening theme music for the BBC production of "Top Gear", an automobile centered show, that was released in the US in the 21st Century. A US produced version was created later, but was not as good as the original.

[@MisterWondrous]

What a beautiful story about the song's origin. I once composed a song called "Childhood Sunlight" based on the same energy. Their early classic, "Revival" also has that optimistic energy...and the rhythm is almost identical to the Rascals' song, "Good Lovin'". Both highly recommended for your upbeat show. In the old days, instead of saying "Let's do dis" I would say "Les Dudek". Just thought I'd share. Easy mnemonic.

[@richeaton5752]

Yes, Dickie and Duane are/were great (well, they all were. no runts), but Berry Oakley needs a lot more credit than he gets. One of the greatest bassists ever.

[@Kate-it7cn]

Ramblin Man ( Allmans-Betts) is similar to this. 1984 live performance the best. Dickey was in his prime and it’s very close to the studio version. They also did Jessica live on this performance.

[@z-man2343]

Way back in 1984, I went to see Hot Tuna at the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, NY. The opening act was listed as BHLT on the ticket. Had no idea who they were and didn't care. When the curtain opened, there stood Dicky Betts, Chuck Leavell, Jimmy Hall and Butch Trucks! These four proceeded to blow the roof off that joint and played for an hour and a half including three (yes three) encores as the opening act!!! Needless to say Hot Tuna was a huge disappointment and had the audience cslling for BHLT to come back on stage. What a night that was!

[@subwaygoddess1]

I love Jessica! It reminds me of summer, my favorite time of year! So happy you grooved with it!

[@babylonsister118]

I love this song because the dual synchronized lead guitars really stand out on this and it's one thing they did better than anyone else, IMHO!

[@lloydanderson1486]

Chuck Leavell on the Piano

[@user-pf7jm9go6o]

Good time to do a dive into Django Reinhardt and his legacy.

[@kidpoker007]

Chuck Levell on Piano and Duane wasn't alive when they performed this song...I think..lol Thats Classic Dicky Betts solo

[@mikemiller3069]

My band covered this back in the 80s. It was challenging but a lot of fun, especially the harmonizing guitar parts. We didn't have a piano player, though so we had to shorten the song by cutting out the piano solo.

[@user-gb5bl1bl4z]

This laid back cruisin on a warm summer day music.

[@user-nw7ow1ei1q]

They beat the **** out of you with this one.

[@tresianyfb5865]

Its the snoopys all grown up

[@donnyrodenbergerjr4757]

This song is actually about Gregg's baby daughter, Jessica.

[@user-cb1og8pc7n]

FYI it was Dicky Betts baby daughter. Just sayn'.

[@Kate-it7cn]

Dickeys daughter, wrote it in 15 mins while she was a toddler bouncing around! I met his ex in the early 80s and she told me that story which I had no way of verifying until years later! ( internet)

[@georgeditzel3504]

Unfortunately neither of the songs you did had Duane on them. He had already passed.

[@Robert-xl4mm]

He reacted to Blue Sky, I believe, which definitely featured the Duane - Dicky guitar trade off.

[@matthewoconnor5838]

This was post Duane,amazing album though.

[@bartstarr100]

This song helps you pick out Dickey from Duane in the earlier stuff. Duane was gone by this recording.