Cut entirely live, including all solos and vocals, Nashville power trio Simo's second full-length album follows their self-titled 2011 debut. With Elad Shapiro replacing Frank Swart on bass and backing vocals, the band recorded the album in the Big House, Macon, Georgia, an address familiar to classic rock fans as the communal home of the Allman Brothers Band.
Let Love Show the Way is, in fact, the first ever album to be recorded in what now is the Allman Brothers Band Museum. Appropriately, bandleader J.D. Simo played Duane Allman's 1957 gold-top Gibson Les Paul on every track on the record -- a famous instrument steeped in legendary rock history, not least for delivering the riff on the Derek and the Dominos hit "Layla." ~ Simon Spreyer