DICKIE BETTS – The Bottom Line 1977 (2CD)

FM Broadcast 9.8 – Just about as good as it can get, this captures the moment and freezes it forever in such granular detail that it feels like you are sitting right next to Dickie’s amp. It makes you appreciate his playing like never before. I mean, I play the guitar, but I have no concept of how you turn it into an extension of yourself to the degree that it is practically impossible to make even the slightest mistake. Not that his playing is perfection, it almost is, but just that he uses the instrument to convey so much feeling that it is impossible even to tell if he ever misses a note or phrases something wrong. Does that make sense?

NOTE: The artwork shows disc two with only the last two tracks but the set has been tracked to include “Jessica” and “The Way Love Goes” on disc 2…so the artwork will not be changed to reflect the song order it just is what it is.

Dickey Betts & Great Southern
The Bottom Line
NYC, NY.
4/19/77 (early show)

Disc 1

01 pre ramble
02 Blue Sky
03 Run Gypsy Run
04 Out To Get Me
05 Bougainvillea
06 In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
07 Nothing you Can Do
08 Southbound

Disc 2

09 Jessica
10 The Way Love Goes
11 talk
12 High Falls
13 Ramblin’ Man