Track Listing

1. I'm Easy
2. I'll Be Long Gone
3. Another Day (Another Letter)
4. Now You're Gone
5. Finding Her
6. Look What I Got!
7. Waiting for a Train
8. Loan Me a Dime
9. Sweet Release

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14004 in Music
• Released on: 1993-10-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Details
The incredible first album with Duane Allman on guitar and featuring his FM radio staple 'Loan Me A Dime'.

Customer Reviews

One of those "forgotten classics"
You don't hear songs from this CD on the radio any more (even on the classic rock stations). As with some other "forgotten classics" from that era (examples would be "Forever Changes" by Love, "East-West" by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Rod Stewart's first album), this album received rave reviews and got a fair amount of airplay on the cutting-edge FM stations of the late 60s and early 70s. However, it didn't generate any "hits" and is now easily overlooked in the CD racks at the music stores.

That's a shame, because this is Boz at his best - soulful, expressive, at times joyous and playful, at other times blue to the point of tears. "Loan Me a Dime" is the centerpiece of the album. Boz' voice, the Muscle Shoals rhythm section, and Duane Allman's no-holds-barred guitar combine to make the song soar and cry. "Finding Her" is a quiet, romantic contrast to the mournful pyrotechnics of "Loan Me a Dime", it's a little gem that gives Duane a chance to swoop and soar (turn the volume up at the end to hear his trademark "twitter"). "Waiting for a Train" is a lovely tribute to Jimmy Rodgers, Boz sings it with a woeful, resigned tone while Duane inserts little dobro fills and echoes; Barry Beckett does a nice little saloon-piano break in the middle.

The rest of the songs are good to excellent. No "filler" and not a "clinker" in the bunch, they're all worth listening to.

Don't pass this CD up when browsing the racks or surfing thru this web site. If you were listening to FM radio during the era when this came out, you'll be nodding your head and flashing back as you hear each song. If you weren't, this CD will give you a sense of what was being played in those days.

P. S. If you have the Duane Allman Anthology Vol 1 CD, you HAVE to get this CD. The Anthology album has "Loan Me a Dime", but the mix of the song puts the volume of Duane's guitar so low that you have to strain to hear it. You really need Boz' CD to fully hear and appreciate Duane's performance.

Great album....but not the original mix
This is actually Boz' SECOND ALBUM...He recorded an accustic album in Stockholm in 1965!!

This is a classic album, recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and was originally Produced by Jann Werner. Issued 1969, it sold poorly and in 1977, somebody at Atlantic had the bright idea of completely remixed the original album (it was done in Los Angeles), bringing up Duane Allman's guitar and drowning other aspects of the original mix. On "Finding Her", for example, the volume level of the music drops down way low for the last 40 (or so) seconds....something the original mix never had.

Apparently, the original mix is only available on the original vinyl LP (SD-8239). Lord knows if Atlantic still has both mixes in their vaults (they did not renumber the 1977 mix).

I wish someone would reissue the original mix...it's SOOOOOOOOO much better.

Excellent work.
I'm particularly fond of Beckett's organ riffs that introduce "Now You're Gone". For the Deadheads, a bit of trivia: Donna Thatcher, one of the three principle backup singers, is better known to you all by her later married name, Donna Godchaux.