One Way Out, Alan Paul
One Way Out, Alan Paul
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One Way Out
The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band

Author: Alan Paul

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 11 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/26/2014


Synopsis

One Way Out is the powerful biography of the Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band's participation and filled with original, never-before-published interviews as well as personal letters and correspondence. This is the most in-depth look at a legendary American rock band that has meant so much to so many for so long.

For twenty-five years, Alan Paul has covered the Allman Brothers Band, conducting hundreds of interviews, riding the buses with them, attending rehearsals and countless shows. He has interviewed every living band member for this book as well as managers, roadies, and contemporaries, including Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Oteil Burbridge, the late Allen Woody, Jimmy Herring, Eric Clapton, Bob Weir, and many others.

Tracking the band's career from their 1969 formation to today, One Way Out is filled with musical and cultural insights, riveting tales of sometimes violent personality conflicts and betrayals, drug and alcohol use, murder allegations and exoneration, tragic early deaths, road stories, and much more, including the most in-depth look at the acrimonious 2000 parting with founding guitarist Dickey Betts and behind-the-scenes information on the recording of At Fillmore East, Layla, Eat a Peach, Brothers and Sisters, and other classic albums.

About Alan Paul

Alan Paul is a senior writer for Slam and Guitar World magazines. He is the author of Big in China, and his work has also appeared in the New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, the Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, and People, among other publications.


Reviews

Goodreads review by *TUDOR^QUEEN* on June 12, 2023

The Allman Brothers is one of those bands with just a handful of songs I like, but has an extremely interesting backstory. Imagine a band launched in the sixties fronted by two brothers that finally hits the big time only to lose their most important member, lead guitarist and unquestioned leader Du......more

Goodreads review by Alan on April 23, 2019

Please note that all reviews posted here are for a different book. The Ebook edition was a shell of what is being released by St. Martin's on February 18. The new book is five times longer and will have 150 photographs.......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on May 19, 2020

People are a little surprised that I like reading books about rock stars. I am largely into classical literature and biography, but I also am very interested in the entertainment industry. Not so much as a screaming fan, although I'm not above that, but because I like to get inside what makes a musi......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on September 02, 2014

First, a personal anecdote: On 3/20/14, on the eve of the release of Alan Paul's masterful oral biography of the Allman Brothers Band, "One Way Out," I attended a book signing and interview at NYC's 82nd St. Barnes & Noble (just eight blocks north of the band's home away from home, the Beacon Theatr......more

Goodreads review by Rod on April 03, 2016

If you are an electric guitar player and you are NOT an Allman Brothers Band fan - then you really aren't a guitar player. This is the Allman Brothers Band book that i've been waiting over 25 years for (ever since Warren Haynes made the Pattern Disruptive album with Dickie Betts back in 1989 - when I......more