History Trivia / TheAllmanBrothersBand

* OldShame: (Verging on CanonDiscontinuity) Basically everything after ''Brothers and Sisters'' until the band stabilized with the Trucks/Haynes guitar team and ''Hittin' the Note'' in the early 2000s was this for different band members, due to recurring substance abuse problems, legal issues and bitter infighting.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Duane had originally been signed to Creator/AtlanticRecords as a solo artist, and the label wanted him to front a Music/JimiHendrix Experience-style trio with bassist Paul Hornsby and drummer Johnny Sandlin, but the initial sessions didn't work out (for one thing, Duane wasn't comfortable as a lead vocalist). Instead, Duane called in his brother Gregg and various other musicians he'd gotten to know playing the Southern club circuit and formed the Allman Brothers Band. Sandlin stuck around to help them, ultimately becoming their RecordProducer (Hornsby also became a prolific producer on the SouthernRock scene).

** Their final Top 40 hit, "Straight from the Heart" from 1981's disowned ''Brothers of the Road'', is extremely generic SoftRock that one biographer has called a "Music/DoobieBrothers imitation".

* BlackSheepHit: When Dickey Betts brought in "Ramblin' Man" the others recognized it as a great song but were reluctant to record it because it didn't really sound like anything they'd recorded in the past (it was much more CountryMusic-influenced than most of their previous music). They recorded it and put it on ''Brothers and Sisters'' but were leaning toward releasing "Wasted Words" as the lead-off single until early positive radio reaction to "Ramblin' Man" led to a change of plans. And it became their biggest hit.

** The band felt that the albums they released during their early-80's formation, such as ''Englightened Rogues'' and ''Reach for the Sky'', were "embarrassing" and felt that meddling from Arista Records hampered their quality. They never played tracks from these albums again on their subsequent reunion tours.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The cover photo of ''At Fillmore East'' looks like it could've been taken in an alley in New York around the time they were doing the Fillmore concerts, but it was actually taken in downtown Macon, Georgia a few months later.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The cover photo of ''At Fillmore East'' sort of looks like it might've been taken in an alley in New York around the time they were doing the Fillmore concerts, but it was actually taken in downtown Macon, Georgia.

* BreakthroughHit: ''At Fillmore East'', for sure.

* HitlessHitAlbum: ''Eat a Peach'' and ''Win, Lose or Draw'' both made Top 5 on the album charts, while the highest any single from either album could manage on the pop charts was #77. Things were different on rock radio, where a number of songs from ''Eat a Peach'' became popular favorites. But played fairly straight with ''Win, Lose or Draw'', which sold well at first as the long-anticipated follow-up to ''Brother and Sisters'', but was largely forgotten after that.