Mountain Jam Mountain Jam "Mountain Jam" is an improvised instrumental jam by The Allman Brothers Band. The song's first known recording is on May 4, 1969 at Macon Central Park. "Mountain Jam" was originally released on the 1972 "Eat a Peach" album, as recorded at the Fillmore East concert hall, in March 1971 during the same sessions that produced their prior live double album "At Fillmore East". That is the rendition that is best known. Other live recordings have been released on the albums "Fillmore East, February 1970", "", "", "The Fillmore Concerts", and deluxe edition of "At Fillmore East" (1971). Notably,
At Fillmore East doing the [studio] records, and I think, consequently, our next album will be ... a live recording, to get some of that natural fire on it." "We were not intentionally trying to buck the system, but keeping each song down to 3:14 just didn't work for us," remembered Gregg Allman. "And we realized that the audience was a big part of what we did, which couldn't be duplicated in a studio. A lightbulb finally went off; we needed to make a live album." "At Fillmore East" was recorded over two nights — March 12 and 13, 1971 — for which