No Stranger To The Dark: The Best Of Gregg Allman
Even if you accept that a best-of for Gregg Allman can focus wholly on his solo career (as this one does) and not include any of his work with the Allman Brothers this could not by any stretch be considered "the best of Gregg Allman " It's really the best of what he's recorded for Sony which is really an entirely different animal. That means there's nothing from his three 1970s albums, which most listeners would view as containing his best solo work; the chronological stretch on this comp only covers the last half of the 1980s and the 1990s. Like, say, Rod Stewart this was a time in which his recordings had really only a shadow of their old power, although (like Stewart his voice was still in good shape and he didn't stoop to levels as low as Stewart did. Given the pool of what it has to work with, this disc is a reasonable selection, evenly spread between highlights of the I'm No Angel Just Before the Bullets Fly and Searching for Simplicity albums. And there are a few extras that might make this worth getting for Allman completists: previously unreleased live cuts from 1987 ("Melissa" and 1998 (his long-lived staple cover of Jackson Browne s "These Days" , a studio outtake from 1985, and "Brother to Brother," a duet with Lori Yates that was on the 1989 Next of Kin soundtrack. Overall, though, it's hardly a guide to even some of his best work, the 1980s tracks suffering from slick period production and unmemorable AOR material. His voice is certainly operating at a level above the quality of many of the songs, and is better served by the occasional cuts on which the blues-soul elements come more to the foreground, like "I've Got News for You" and the cover of "Dark End of the Street." ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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Gregg Allman - Producer
Gregg Allman - Main Performer
Gregg Allman - Original Recording Producer
Steven Berkowitz - A&R
Tom Dowd - Producer
Timothy Eaton - Producer
Timothy Eaton - Original Recording Producer
Jim Horn - ?
Sam Levine - ?
Dan Toler - ?
David Frankie Toler - ?
Caroline Greyshock - Back Cover
Howard Fritzson - Art Direction
David Gahr - Cover Photo
Bud Snyder - Engineer
Bud Snyder - Original Recording Producer
Kirk West - Tape Research
Patti Matheny - A&R
John Christiana - Package Manager
Darren Salmieri - A&R
Cindy Richardson Walker - ?
David Hood - ?
Kelvin Holly - ?
Tim Heding - ?
Danny Chauncey - ?
Gary Armstrong - ?
Ava Aldridge - ?
Jimmy Hall - ?
Jaan Uhelszki - Liner Notes
Jeff Magid - Compilation Producer
Vinnie Ciesielski - ?
Bruce Waibel - ?
Chaz Trippy - ?
Johnny Sandlin - Original Recording Producer
Johnny Sandlin - Producer
Steve Buckingham - Original Recording Producer
Steve Buckingham - Producer
Jessica Boucher - ?
Floyd Miles - ?
Smay Vision - Design
Brian Hagiwara - Photography
Jack Pearson - ?
Harvey Thompson - ?
Charles Rose - ?
Rodney Mills - Original Recording Producer
Rodney Mills - Producer
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