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 in the hands of Atlantic executives (Allman was particularly disgusted with the artwork for Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Comin'" album). Initially, the album cover was to be shots of the band taken in front of the Fillmore East with their names on the marquee above them, but no one was satisfied with the results. The band's main purpose for the cover was that it be as "meat and potatoes" as the band's ethos and performing, and someone suggested the band make it a photograph of the band in an alley waiting with their gear to go onstage. The