SNATCHING IT BACK

1.		Step By Step
2.		I Stayed Away Too Long
3.		Tell Daddy
4.		Looking For A Fox
5.		I Can't See Myself
6.		The Road Of Love
7.		Slip Away
8.		Back Door Santa
9.		That Old Time Feeling
10.		Too Weak To Fight
11.		I'd Rather Go Blind
12.		Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street)
13.		Snatching It Back
14.		Soul Deep
15.		I Smell A Rat
16.		Doin' Our Thing
17.		The Feeling Is Right
18.		I Can't Leave Your Love Alone
19.		Slipped, Tripped And Fell In Love
20.		It's All In Your Mind
21.		Patches

Duane Allman plays on track 6.
Duane Allman is suspected to play on tracks 12 & 13.

The liner notes mention 'Fame 1016' as the "single catalog #' for the track 'The Road Of Love'. But this original single version, recorded on July 26, 1967 and released in August 1967, has not been used for this compilation album. Instead the album version, released in April 1969 on 'The Dynamic Clarence Carter', was selected.
According to 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, Duane Allman starts it of, plays the riff on the bass strings and plays the slide solo, starting on 1:26 and ending on 1:50. This is an overdub on the master that was used for the single version. Horns were also added. These overdubs were done at FAME on November 12, 1968.

The same liner notes mention Duane Allman as a musician on 'That Old Time Feeling', 'Too Weak To Fight' and "I'd Rather Go Blind', but Duane does not play on these tracks. 'That Old Time Feeling' and 'Too Weak To Fight' were recorded on October 3, 1968 at Rick Hall's 'Fame Recording Studios' and 'I'd Rather Go Blind' was recorded on December 2, 1968 at 'Fame Recording Studios'.

The liner notes of this CD also show that 'Snatching It Back' and 'Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street)' were recorded on January 6, 1969 at Fame Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL.
The booklet of the 7-CD box set 'Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective' (Rounder Records 11661-9137-2, 2013) shows that Duane Allman made recordings for the Soul Survivors "Take Another Look" album at Fame on that same day.

"Snatchin It Back" and an extended version of "Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street)" were also released on Clarence Carter's 1969 album Testifyin' (Atlantic SD 8238).

On page 14 of Michael Buffalo Smith's book "Capricorn Rising" (Mercer University Press, Macon, GA, 2016) Gregg Allman talks about the song 'Dark End Of The Street' that he recorded for his ‘Searching For Simplicity’ album. And he also tells that Duane recorded it with Clarence Carter.

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 does not play on the album Testifyin'.

We have checked the recording dates for this album on the tape ledgers from the Atlantic Records archive and on
https://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic-records/discography-1969/
and we found out that 8 tracks for the LP Testifyin' were recorded on May 2, 1969 and May 13, 1969 at Fame Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL.
Duane Allman doesn't play on these tracks, because after February 1969 he didn't record at Fame anymore.

But the Atlantic Records tape ledgers, and
https://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic-records/discography-1968/
also show that 3 tracks for this LP were recorded earlier.
‘Back Door Santa’ was recorded on October 3, 1968 at Fame Recording Studios during the sessions for the LP 'The Dynamic Clarence Carter'.
And the tracks 'Snatching It Back' and 'Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street)' were recorded on January 6, 1969, and it were the only 2 tracks recorded on that day.'
On the Testifyin' LP Albert Lowe, Jimmy Johnson and Clarence Carter are listed as the guitar players.

On page 142 of her book 'Please Be With Me - A Song For My Dather, Duane Allman' (Spiegel & Grau, New York, NY, 2014) Galadrielle Allman published a part of Duane's diary:

- January 3, 1969 Clarence Carter session. Clarence canceled today. Moved into my lake crib and it’s a gas. Spent the day fixing it a little.
- January 4, 1969 Clarence Carter session
- January 5, 1969 Clarence Carter session – Leave for New York for Aretha Franklin session.
First part of session terrible. Couldn’t get Rick [Fame Studios owner and producer Rick Hall] to accept new idea for guitar parts. The other cats said I was learning fast when this happened. What a drag.
- January 6, 1969 Begin Aretha Franklin session.

So it seems the recording date for those 2 tracks was not January 6, 1969, but January 4 & 5, 1969. The master numbers were probably assigned on January 6.

But what happened on January 4 & 5 ? Now we know that Duane was there. Did he play on these tracks or didn’t he play at all? Or was his contribution erased from the tapes?

The original mono versions were released as a 45rpm single in February 1969 (Atlantic 45-2605)

1.		Snatching It Back (mono)
2.		Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street) (mono)

1.		Snatching It Back (mono)
2.		Snatching It Back (stereo)
3.		Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street) (mono)
4.		Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street) (stereo)