Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1971

Allman Brothers "At Fillmore East" seems a pretty big record to be missing here thus far from '71.

Rory Gallagher's "Duece" is another good LP from '71. Probably not my favorite from the year, but it is my favorite of his studio albums. His debut solo record also came out in '71.

ZZ Top's "First Album", Little Feat and Thin Lizzy were a few other notable debuts in '71.

A few more notables from '71...

Jeff Beck Group "Rough and Ready"
Humble Pie "Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore"
Jimi Hendrix "The Cry of Love"
Jethro Tull "Aqualung"
Freddie King "Getting Ready"
John Lennon "Imagine"
Grateful Dead "Skull and Roses"
Grand Funk Railroad "E Plurbius Funk"
Badfinger "Straight Up"
James Brown "Revolution of the Mind"

Just a crazy good year for LPs...

ZZ Top's "First Album", Little Feat and Thin Lizzy were a few other notable debuts in '71.

These bands are usually regarded as peaking several albums later, although I was surprised how much Phil Lynott was already himself on that first Lizzy record; I was expecting a more run-of-the-mill heavy approach.

Allman Brothers "At Fillmore East" seems a pretty big record to be missing here thus far from '71.

Not if you live outside the USA.

Did the Allman Brothers never tour outside the US?

It struck me that the first albums by Faust and Sparks beat Roxy Music by a year in terms of introducing post-modernism to rock...unless you think Zappa got there before any of them.

My favorite album of 1971 would also be my favorite debut of 1971, Judee Sill

As would mine. Gilbert's Himself.

Others besides O'Sullivan that I love but haven't been mentioned

The Scratch Orchestra - The Great Learning
Paul and Linda McCartney - Ram
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (now officially 71 not 70)
Lou Christie Sacco - Paint America Love
The Keith Tippett Group - Dedicated to You, But You Weren't Listening
Freddie Hubbard and İlhan Mimaroğlu - Sing Me a Song of Songmy
Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka
TONTO's Expanding Head Band - Zero Time
The Stylistics
Carla Bley and Paul Haines - Escalator Over the Hill
Beau - Creation
Kingdom Come - Galactic Zoo Disaster
Edgar Broughton Band
Osibisa

"Did the Allman Brothers never tour outside the US?"

Got kind of curious about that myself after the question was posed. I did not figure the original band ever did as they were really only getting pretty popular with Duane Allman died. They don't appear to have played much in the 70s in Europe, but I found some notices that they headlined a festival at Knebworth in 1974.

Later on, I got to figure some of Greg Allman's arrest issues might have made it hard for him to get visas and it was probably just more profitable for them to keep playing in the US.

I did find note that Greg Allman and Cher did some dates together in Japan and Europe. Of course this tour from what is reads was also what done in the marriage for good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_the_Hard_Way_Tour

It looks like they played Montreal a couple of months before Duane died.