The Broadcast Archive

This superb 3CD set features FM radio broadcasts recorded during the early years of the band's career. Kicking off with the now-classic recording made at A&R Studios in New York on August 1971, when Brother Duane was still with the group, the broadcast made of this event has become enshrined into legend as the band play a quite magnificent set which has rarely, if ever, been bettered throughout the group's history. The second disc, featuring a show recorded at the Hollywood Bowl about a year later in August '72, remains another classic, albeit sadly one without the esteemed talents of Duane who had passed on following his tragic bike accident the previous October, but one that does feature the guitar skills of Johnny Winter on a couple of cuts. Disc three concludes this set with the Allmans show at Manley Field House in Syracuse, New York, also from 1972, and concludes it in style as this recording, also transmitted across the surrounding area by FM radio, remains another magnificent live appearance from the group while still in the first throes of their lengthy career.