by Bruce Eder
After a year of personal and personnel problems, the Allman Brothers Band got back together to record the surprisingly consistent live-in-the-studio venture Where It All Begins. It lacks the ambition and stretch of Seven Turns or Shades of Two Worlds, along with their peaks, but it is still a solidly consistent album, driven by some of the virtues of live spontaneity. Highlights include Gregg Allman's frank drug song &All Night Train,& the Bo Diddley-beat-driven &No One to Run With,& and the glorious dual-guitar workout &Back Where It All Begins.&