{"id":6503,"date":"2022-07-23T10:02:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2022-07-24T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T16:32:00","slug":"blue-sky-allman-bros-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=6503","title":{"rendered":"Blue Sky &#8211; Allman Bros Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Blue Sky<\/strong>&#8221; is a song by the American rock band&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Allman_Brothers_Band\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Allman Brothers Band<\/a>&nbsp;from their third studio album,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eat_a_Peach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eat a Peach<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;(1972), released on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capricorn_Records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capricorn Records<\/a>. The song was written and sung by guitarist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dickey_Betts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dickey Betts<\/a>, who penned it about his girlfriend (and later wife), Sandy &#8220;Bluesky&#8221; Wabegijig. The track is also notable as one of guitarist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duane_Allman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duane Allman<\/a>&#8216;s final recorded performances with the group. The band&#8217;s two guitarists, Duane Allman and Dickey Betts, alternate playing the song&#8217;s lead: Allman&#8217;s solo beginning 1:07 in, Betts joining in a shared melody line at 2:28, followed by Betts&#8217;s solo at 2:37. The song is notably more&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Country_music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">country<\/a>-inspired than many songs in the band&#8217;s catalogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performed, Recorded and Produced by Steve Keith at Baselines Designs Studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/all-songs\/mp3\/Cover_Story_2\/Blue_Sky_Master.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/blue_sky_color-387x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6504\" width=\"819\" height=\"546\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Blue Sky&#8221; is a song by the American rock band&nbsp;the Allman Brothers Band&nbsp;from their third studio album,&nbsp;Eat a Peach&nbsp;(1972), released on&nbsp;Capricorn Records. The song was written and sung by guitarist&nbsp;Dickey Betts, who penned it about his girlfriend (and later wife), Sandy &#8220;Bluesky&#8221; Wabegijig. The track is also notable as one of guitarist&nbsp;Duane Allman&#8216;s final recorded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[276,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bandlab","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6506,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503\/revisions\/6506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}