THE ALLMAN Brothers came together in 1969 and these box and vinyl sets span their entire career across 13 different line-ups, with tracks from their albums and live recordings – including with The Grateful Dead — and unreleased material.

Kicking off in 1969 with an unreleased cover of Muddy Waters’s Trouble No More, the Capricorn album’s tracks have Duane Allman’s wonderful slide guitar work at the centre of things.

There are tracks from 1971’s Live At Fillmore East, which has a dazzling 13-minute instrumental on In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed and the double album Eat A Peach, featuring Duane Allman before he was killed in a motorcycle accident, and there’s a moving tribute from Gregg Allman to his brother on One Way Out, from the closing night of the Fillmore East.

The other lost hero of the band was Berry Oakley, also killed in a motorcycle accident.

In 1980, the line-up recorded Reach For The Sky and Brothers Of The Road before Gregg went solo only to reform the band in 1989 with Warren Haynes on guitar. They released Seven Turns and Shades Of Two Worlds, with guitarist and vocalist Dickey Betts taking a dominant role and Haynes co-writing five songs.

Unreleased sides from the 2005 live set at the the Beacon Theatre round off this wonderful compilation.

Trouble No More is released on Island Mercury/UMe.