Reach for the Sky (The Allman Brothers Band album) explained

Reach for the Sky
Type:	studio
Artist:	The Allman Brothers Band
Cover:	ABBReachForTheSky.jpg
Released:	August 1980
Recorded:	May 1980
Studio:	Pyramid Eye Recording Studio, Lookout Mountain, Georgia
Genre:	Southern rock
Length:	35:09
Label:	Arista
Producer:	Mike Lawler Johnny Cobb
Prev Title:	Enlightened Rogues
Prev Year:	1979
Next Title:	Brothers of the Road
Next Year:	1981

Reach for the Sky is the seventh studio album by the rock group the Allman Brothers Band, released in 1980. It was the last album to feature drummer Jai Johanny Johanson until his return on the Seven Turns album.

Reach for the Sky was the first Allman Brothers Band album to be released by a label other than Capricorn Records. It was their second album with Dan Toler on guitar and David Goldflies on bass. The band recorded the album at Pyramid Eye Studios in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, a studio that Scott McClellan founded. The back cover photograph shows the band atop Sunset Rock on Lookout Mountain's western brow in Tennessee.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Hell & High Water" (Dickey Betts) – 3:37
2. "Mystery Woman" (Gregg Allman, Dan Toler) – 3:35
3. "From the Madness of the West" (Betts) – 6:37
4. "I Got a Right to Be Wrong" (Betts) – 3:44

Side two

1. "Angeline" (Betts, Johnny Cobb, Mike Lawler) – 3:43
2. "Famous Last Words" (Betts, Bonnie Bramlett) – 2:48
3. "Keep On Keepin' On" (Betts, Toler) – 4:11
4. "So Long" (Allman, Toler) – 6:54

Personnel

• Gregg Allman – keyboards, lead vocals
• Dickey Betts – guitar, co-lead vocals on 1, lead vocals on 4, 6
• Dan Toler – guitar^[1]
• David Goldflies – bass guitar
• Butch Trucks – drums, percussion
• Jai Johanny Johanson – drums

Notes and References

1. Web site: Music Legends. Dan Toler Interview. 8 May 2013. 27 April 2010. Saulnier. Jason.
2. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 15.