GEORGE JACKSON:
Don't Count Me Out
The Fame Recordings Volume 1

Compilation album.

Original release:
CD: Ace Records Ltd. / Kent Soul (UK) CDKEND 363 (2011)

  1.   Search Your Heart
  2.   I Can't Do Without You
  3.
Greedy Over You
  4.   3-F Blues (Find 'Em, Fool 'Em And Forget 'Em)
  5.   Getting The Bills (But No Merchandise)
  6.   Let's Stop Hurting  Each Other
  7.   Bite The Hand That Feeds You
  8.   I Can't Leave Your Love Alone
  9.   I Want You So Bad
10.   Stuck On Her
11.   Don't Count Me Out
12.   You Can't Make It No Better
13.   Talking In Your Sleep
14.   Statue Of Soul
15.   The Feeling Is Right
16.   Greasy Two By Four
17.   You're At The Right Table
18.   Let's Make It A Deal
19.   Back In Your Arms
20.   Love Without A Future
21.   She's Rated G
22.   You're Gonna Need Me Again
23.
Evidence
24.   I Can't Love Without You

Duane Allman plays on track 3.

All titles are previously unissued Fame demo recordings, except track 1, issued in 2011 on Kent LTDEP 009.
According to the liner notes Duane Allman is suspected to play on track 3.

Duane Allman was also suspected to play on track 23.
The same basic backing track of 'Evidence' was used for the version recorded by Candi Staton that was released on her album "I'm Just A Prisoner" (Fame/Capitol LP 4201, 1970).
But on Candi's version we hear a different guitar part:

On December 19, 2011 I received some additional information from Tony Rounce of Ace Records / Kent Soul in the UK. Tony is the author of the liner notes of this CD:

 ‘Greedy Over You’ and ‘Evidence’ were both definitely recorded in FAME’s Muscle Shoals studio. Unfortunately all of the many hundreds of songwriter demos were looped up onto composite reels years ago, and any original data that may have been on individual spools was lost when they were. But I do know that ‘Greedy…’ was recorded with the Barry Beckett/Jimmy Johnson/David Hood/Roger Hawkins line up of FAME studio regulars, and that ‘Evidence’ was cut with the musicians that we know as the Fame Gang (i.e. the third great studio band) after B/J/H/H left to open Muscle Shoals Sound.

This would mean that Duane doesn't play on 'Evidence', because, as far as we know, he never recorded with the Fame Gang.

On March 22, 2014 Scott Cantor spoke with David Hood (in the 1960's studio bassist for FAME and also co-founder of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio) and Jimmy Johnson (in the 1960's studio guitarist and sound engineer for Rick Hall's FAME Studio in Muscle Shoals, AL. and in 1969 co-founder of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio). They confirmed that Duane Allman plays on track 3 and not on track 23.

(Thanks to Scott Cantor for this information)

In the article 'George Jackson From The Heart', published in 'Juke Blues' magazine (UK, issue no. 50, early 2002) George Jackson confirms that Duane Allman played on his sessions at Rick Hall's FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL:

 

 

 

 

 

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(thanks to Stuart Krause for the magazine)

45 rpm single releases:
Victim Of A Foolish Heart / Getting The Bills (But No Merchandise) (Fame Records / Ace Records Ltd. NW501, 2011)