Whipping Post

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Written by: Gregg Allman
Produced by: Tom Dowd
Released: Nov. '69 on Capricorn
Charts: Non-single

This enduring anthem was written on an ironing board in a darkened Florida bedroom by Allman. Leaping off with a rumbling Berry Oakley bass line, rife with tormented blues-ballad imagery and punctuated by Duane Allman's knifelike guitar incisions, the song is best appreciated in the twenty-three-minute incarnation on At Fillmore East.

Appears on: At Fillmore East (Mercury)

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