So similar to this past Wednesday, I'm opting out of cycling and instead laying around on this otherwise pleasant Friday evening and listening to this Beginnings album by the Allman Brothers.
Originally issued in 1973, Beginnings was a two-record set that repackaged the Allman Brothers' first two releases, 1969's The Allman Brothers Band and 1970's Idlewild South. The music captures the Allmans in their early stage and features soon-to-be deceased members Duane Allman and Berry Oakley.
Highlights include the jam-fest Whipping Post (which would soon take on an on-stage life all its own), as well as the slightly psychedelic Dreams, the soaring In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, and the road anthem Midnight Rider. The roots of Southern rock can be minutely inspected on Beginnings'.
And as far as decent, lazy ass-kicking music goes, this is it boy.
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