Eat a Peach
Eat a Peach is a 1972 album by the United States rock music group The Allman Brothers Band; it was the last to include founder member and lead slide guitar player Duane Allman, who was killed in a motorcycle accident while the album was being recorded.
This double-disc set came close on the heels of their successful Live at Fillmore East set and featured live tracks that did not make it on to that album, including "One Way Out" and an entire album side devoted to "Mountain Jam", a 33-minute improvisation based around Donovan's song "First There is a Mountain".
Much of the remainder of the album was recorded in-studio and served to cement the Brothers' reputation as innovative Southern rockers. Several tracks featured a new emphasis on more lyrical acoustic work, notably on "Melissa" and the guitar classic "Little Martha".
The widespread story regarding the origin of the album's title, that the truck involved in Duane Allman's fatal motorcycle accident was a peach truck, is not correct; the truck involved was actually a flatbed lumber truck. The name actually came from something Duane said in an interview shortly before he was killed; when asked what he was doing to help the anti-war effort, Duane replied, "There ain't no revolution, it's evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace." The album's name was originally slated to be The Kind We Grow in Dixie, and the art-work for the album showed a peach; band members were dissatisfied with the name, and the image suggested Duane's quote instead.
Allman Brothers fans emphatically deny that Duane Allman's reference was to T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917), a poem familiar to all Donovan Leitch/G. Allman) - 33:38
- "One Way Out" (Marshall Sehorn/Elmore James) - 4:58
- "Trouble No More" (McKinley Morgan) - 3:43
- "Stand Back" (G. Allman/Berry Oakley) - 3:24
- "Blue Sky" (Betts) - 5:09
- "Little Martha" (Duane Allman) - 2:07
