| Beginnings | |
| Type: | Compilation album |
| Artist: | The Allman Brothers Band |
| Cover: | The Allman Brothers Band - Beginnings.jpg |
| Released: | 1973 |
| Recorded: | 1969–1970 |
| Genre: | Southern rock |
| Length: | 64:08 |
| Label: | Atco |
| Producer: | Adrian Barber (tracks 1–7) Tom Dowd (tracks 8–12, 14) Joel Dorn (track 13) |
| Prev Title: | Eat a Peach |
| Prev Year: | 1972 |
| Next Title: | Brothers and Sisters |
| Next Year: | 1973 |
Beginnings is a 1973 reissue of the Allman Brothers Band's first two albums, The Allman Brothers Band and Idlewild South, made to capitalize on the band's popularity since those records had first come out. Beginnings also includes extensive liner notes by writer Jean-Charles Costa that gave many fans their first coherent view of the band's history, as well as useful guidelines for how to tell Duane Allman's guitar parts from Dickey Betts'. The front cover depicts them at one of their many famous performances at the Fillmore East.
For Beginnings, the band's debut album was remixed by Tom Dowd, replacing Adrian Barber's original mix.
Personnel on original albums, see:
Personnel of this compilation: