30 Years Ago: Allman Brothers Band's 'Shades of Two Worlds' Reaches Old Heights

The Allman Brothers Band had reestablished themselves after launching a third era with 1990’s well-received Seven Turns, but something was still missing. Well, actually, something had to go. They discovered this after parting ways with piano player Johnny Neel, a more recent recruit. Subsequent touring dates in Japan featured the same six-member format as the Allman Brothers Band’s initial 1969-76 tenure, and a similar feeling returned. “There was just so much freedom, so much space,” cofounder Butch Trucks told the Los Angeles Times in 1991. “For the first time since Duane [Allman] and Berry ...