Don't Want You No More

Album: The Allman Brothers Band (1969)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is the first song on the first Allman Brothers album. It is an instrumental that was originally recorded by The Spencer Davis Group in 1967. They released it on the B-side of their single "Time Seller."
  • The title is grammatically incorrect. It is a double negative.
  • Allman Brothers Band bassist Berry Oakley and guitarist Dickey Betts used to play this with their previous group, Second Coming.

Comments: 2

  • Hans from GermanyAs far as I know it was first played live on Sunday, March 30, 1969 at Jacksonville Armory, Jacksonville FL, which is in fact the earliest circulating live performance of the Allman Brothers Band.
  • Barry from New York, NyThis song was played as early as May 1969, the earliest circulating show of the Allman Brothers Band in Macon Georgia.
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