Gregg Allman-Low Country Blues (2011)

With his seventh solo album, Gregg Allman moved away from the Southern rock sounds and instrumental jams of his original band, The Allman Brothers, to pay tribute to some of the greats of Chicago blues, such as B.B. King, Otis Rush, and Muddy Waters, as well as lesser-known artists like John Adams Estes, Willie James Mabon, and Junior Wells. Recorded at Village Recorder in Los Angeles and produced by T Bone Burnett, Gregg surrounded himself with a stellar lineup of musicians, including Dr. John (piano), Dennis Crouch (bass), Doyle Bramhall (guitar), Mike Compton (mandolin), Jay Bellerose (drums), and T Bone himself (guitar). The result was a serene blues album with impeccable production, in which Gregg, with his distinctive voice and the masterful sound of the Hammond organ, revisits such evocative pieces as B.B. King's "Please Accept My Love", Magic Sam's "My Love Is Your Love", Muddy Waters' "I Can't Be Satisfied", Otis Rush's "Checking on My Baby", and Nehemiah "Skip" James' "Devil Got My Woman". Gregg Allman himself contributes "Just Another Rider", composed with his Allman Brothers Bandmate, Warren Haynes. A number one hit on the Billboard Blues charts and a well-deserved Grammy nomination for Best Blues Album attest to this extraordinary work by one of the legends of American music.