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We’re trying something different for this week’s edition of Grousing The Aisles: For your continued enjoyment, we’re adding links to high quality mp3 versions of some of the shows that are featured. Please weigh in and let us know if this is something we should continue. Allright, let’s get down to business here:
Betts, Leavell, Hall, and Trucks 04/23/83 SBD (320kbps MP3):
I didn’t even know this band ever existed until I came upon a torrent of this show from Hobart College. In 1983, the Allman Brothers Band had been broken up for a while, allowing all the members to pursue individual projects. Dickie Betts and Butch Trucks formed a cleverly titled band called BHLT with former Allmans’ piano player Chuck Leavell and Jimmy Hall on harmonica.
This show is one of few that circulate from BHLT’s short tenure. The band plays a number of Allmans classics and a few originals Leavell wrote with Betts (Chuck Leavell features a clip of Rain, one of the originals he wrote with Betts, on his website). BHLT had plans to record but dissolved before that ever became a reality. Luckily for us we can re-live this meeting of southern rock all-stars by listening to this show.
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