“In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed” by Allman Brothers Band

"In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" is the Allman Brothers Band stretching out on Idlewild South, their second album, released on Capricorn in 1970. It's an instrumental, one of Dickey Betts' first compositions for the band, and he named it after a headstone he spotted in Rose Hill Cemetery back in their hometown of Macon, Georgia.

Tom Dowd produced and engineered it, and the band attacks it like a jazz combo cranked to rock volume: Duane Allman and Betts on guitars up front, Gregg Allman's organ and piano simmering underneath, Berry Oakley's bass walking, and Jai Johanny Johanson and Butch Trucks doubling up on drums and percussion for a two-man rhythm engine. The studio take is the blueprint; the band kept reworking it, and the 1971 version on At Fillmore East is the one most people hold up as definitive.

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