In most of this country, March Madness is slang for the NCAA basketball championships. But in New York City, insanity in March means the Allman Brothers Band’s annual residency at the Beacon Theater, on the Upper West Side.
In 2014, the band’s March shows have been preceded by a flurry of activity around their catalog of recordings, including: a new batch of vinyl reissues from Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab; a new LP reissue of Brothers and Sisters, from Universal Music; a new book, Please Be With Me, by Duane’s daughter, Galadrielle Allman; and the new Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective, the acclaimed, seven-CD boxed set of her father’s music, coproduced by Galadrielle. In addition, Haynes and his band, Gov’t Mule, have released Shout!, their first album for Blue Note, which…