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ĭuane and Gregg Allman went to Jacksonville, Florida where they jammed with folk-rockers The 31st of February, featuring drummer Butch Trucks. After these tracks were rejected by Liberty, the group returned to the Southeast, did a few more gigs, and called it quits.

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In a last-ditch effort, the members left Los Angeles to work at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where they recorded a handful of tracks that showed their full potential in the studio.

However, Power of Love, which also featured the songwriting skills of Gregg Allman and material that fit the group much better than the material on their debut, nonetheless flopped. Losing bassist Mabron McKinney and his successor Bob Keller, they soldiered on, performing concerts and recording a second album, Power of Love, which featured bassist Pete Carr from Daytona Beach. The group members were unhappy at not being able to perform as often as they had been accustomed due to the label's concern with overexposure. In fact, the Hour Glass generally refused to perform these songs in their live shows, focusing instead on their gritty, blues- and R&B-inflected southern sounds, along with a couple of originals by Gregg Allman. The ensuing album flopped, perhaps in part because the material did not really reflect the group's tastes or strengths. These songs were chosen from a pool of staff writers, including Jackson Browne and Jimmy Radcliffe, whose song 'Nothing But Tears' was the A-side of the Hour Glass' debut single. Moving to Los Angeles, they were soon opening for groups like The Doors and Buffalo Springfield and recording their eponymous debut album, full of lighthearted poppy soul that was unlike what the group was performing in clubs and theatres in California such as The Fillmore Ballrooom and Troubadour. Louis, Missouri, where they met members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, whose manager, Bill McEuen, arranged for them a contract with Liberty Records. History įormed from the ashes of two disbanded rival groups that had played the same southern circuit, The Allman Joys (based in Florida) and the Men-its (based in Alabama), the group was booked in early 1967 into a month-long engagement in St. Among their members were two future members of the Allman Brothers Band ( Duane Allman and his brother Gregg) and three future studio musicians at the Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama ( Pete Carr, Johnny Sandlin and Paul Hornsby). Hour Glass was an American soul band based in Los Angeles, California in 19.

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