The first thing you got to do with this record is to forget that the Allman Brothers Band ever existed and at one time was the best that America had to offer. Forget any comparisons between the Gregg Allman Band and the Allmans.

Except for the first cut, that is. "Come and Go Blues" was a powerhouse on the Wipe the Windows album, a laconic but rolling blues. Gregg wrote it so I guess he can do what...

Though every big and not-so-big name from the Seventies seems to be hitting the comeback trail these days, Gregg Allman would seem a particularly unlikely candidate. Not long ago it seemed unlikely that he would be alive at this point. But there he is on the cover of I'm No Angel, looking like some gold-tressed, tattooed love boy.

And the music? Surprisingly, it's just as bronzed and fit as its...

This album has been in the works for some time and was almost completed when work began on Brothers And Sisters. Several sessions with noted musicians weren't used, but it was through his keyboard work on these tracks that Chuck Leavell was asked to join the Brothers Band. The operative word is production—lots of horns and strings (46 pieces on one cut, and a 14-voice chorus). Gregg seems...