Allman Brothers Beacon Opener / Peach Music Festival In Works

There were two big news stories out of the Allman Brothers Band camp last night as the iconic rockers kicked off their annual March Madness run at the Beacon Theatre in New York City and it was also revealed that the group will team up with Live Nation to throw a three-day music festival at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania called The Peach Music Festival.

Allman Brothers Band – Come On In My Kitchen

For the first of ten shows at the Beacon, the Allman Brothers Band came out strong by opening with their first live version of the Rodgers/Hammerstein show tune My Favorite Things. A longtime staple of the Derek Trucks Band and a tune the Brothers covered in 1971 as part of the sessions that led to the famed Gatlinburg Tapes, the Allman’s version of My Favorite Things was loosely based on John Coltrane’s cover. From there, the Allmans offered a rare post-Dickey take on Blue Sky sung by Gregg Allman. The rest of the first set focused on covers such as Dr. John’s I Walk On Guilded Splinters and Little Milton’s That’s What Love Will Make You Do and classic ABB compositions Midnight Rider and Kind of Blue. The second set started out with a four song acoustic segment that featured the band’s first-ever cover of Neil Young’s Needle and the Damage Done as well as a take on Come On In My Kitchen that showed off bassist Oteil Burbridge’s banjo skills. Four hard-rocking electric tunes followed the unplugged interlude before You Don’t Love Me served as the first encore of the run.

Set One: My Favorite Things > Blue Sky, Trouble No More, Gilded Splinters, Worried Down With The Blues, Midnight Rider, That’s What Love Will Make You Do, Kind Of Bird

Set Two: Acoustic – Needle and the Damage Done, Come On In My Kitchen, Soulshine, These Days | Electric – Rocking Horse, Black-Hearted Woman, Same Thing, Jessica

Encore: You Don’t Love Me

[via AllmanBrothersBand.com Forums]

The Peach Music Festival will be held in Scranton on August 10 – 12. The full lineup will be announced on Monday, March 26 at Noon ET. Keep your eyes on the event’s website for more details.

UPDATE: Watch Gregg Allman sing Needle and the Damage Done during the Allman Brothers Band’s acoustic segment that kicked off set two of the March Madness opener…

Allman Brothers Band – Needle and the Damage Done

[Hat Tip – Allman Brothers Family of Bands]

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