“ A Pale Green Mermaid Blog “
“I’ve got my hand over my heart,” Gregg Allman says of his extraordinary new album, “and if it’s a hit there, it’s a hit.”
_ Gregg Allman
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Why Mr. Allman Waited 14 years to make a record I don’t know.. .the Allman Brothers were a regular visitor to my record player years ago and ” Jessica ‘ an instrumental song from ” Brothers And Sisters “ was played as the dolphin stadium opened where I and my colleagues stood around the pool, cheesecake security basically… at six flags, where I had the unmitigated pleasure of working with dolphins.
The song ” Floating Bridge has a unique vibe to it - on first listen… I got the feeling of travelling down the Bayou, late at night, as the moon rises over cypress trees and the flat bottom boat I am in moves underneath a low hanging bridge as the reflections bounce over our faces waiting to see what will happen next.
Great song, great song, check it out.
Album LOW COUNTRY BLUES Song FLOATING BRIDGE
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FROM WIKIPEDIA
“Jessica” is a rock instrumental written by Dickey Betts, guitarist of The Allman Brothers Band, and Les Dudek, who played with them soon after Duane Allman’s death.[1]
Jessica was first released on the band’s 1973 album Brothers and Sisters, and has subsequently been used in many musical contexts. In January 2006, a Wall Street Journal article referred to the piece as “a true national heirloom.” It is widely known as the theme to the BBC Two motoring programme Top Gear and its popular reformatted revival.
The piece, along with “Ramblin’ Man”, is one of the two tracks from the album which marked the beginning of a new era for the Allman Brothers Band following the deaths of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley. The song is named for Jessica Betts, the daughter of Dickey Betts and Sandy Bluesky.
