The Allman Betts Band is gearing up to release their debut album, Down To The River, due out June 28th via BMG. The new record was appropriately recorded at the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, AL and produced by Grammy Award winner Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price, John Prine, Elvis Presley).
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Down To The Record also features special guest collaborations with Peter Levin, B3 Hammond player from the Gregg Allman Band, and Chuck Leavell, former Allman Brothers Band keyboardist and current musical director for the Rolling Stones.
On Thursday, the torch-bearing family band, which features Allman Brothers Band offspring Devon Allman, Duane Betts, Berry Oakley Jr., as well as Johnny Stachela, Johnny Ginty, R Scott Bryan, and John Lum released the album’s second single, “Shinin”, which you can listen to below:
The Allman Betts Band – “Shinin”
[Audio: The Allman Betts Band]
“’Shinin’ is a song about how love and devotion can lift you up so you shine brighter than you could alone. It is a song about gratitude and acknowledgment that real love can take you to the next level,” Duane Betts explained to Rolling Stone. “I had a few ideas that I brought over to [collaborator] Stoll Vaughan to work on in Los Angeles right before we started the sessions in Muscle Shoals for Down to the River. We wrote this late addition and it fit perfectly with the list of tunes we had already put together. I’m glad it worked out the way it did.”
“Shinin” is the second track to release from the upcoming album, following “All Night“.
In addition to their world tour dates, The Allman Betts Band will join John Fogerty on the road for select dates later this summer with stops in Providence, RI; Portland, ME; and Boston, MA as well as a performance at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. Additional tour dates are expected to be added soon.