The Allman Brothers Band are to release an expanded six disc box set of their 1971 album, At Fillmore East.
The new edition, called The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings, includes 15 previously unreleased performances. The box set is released on July 29.
Additionally, The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings contains the complete June 27 performance during the venue’s final weekend.
It can be pre-ordered here.
When on July 28, 1973, The Band played the Summer Jam festival at Watkins Glen, New York, on a bill that also included The Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers, Garth Hudson, if he’d been so inclined, could have looked out from the stage onto a crowed of more than 600,000 – at the time, I think, the largest-ever audience for a rock show.