what year was rambling on
Ramblin' Man was first created during songwriting sessions for Eat a Peach. An embryonic version, referring to a ramblin' country man, can be heard on the bootleg The Gatlinburg Tapes, featuring the band jamming on an off-day in April 1971 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Betts continued to work on the song for a year, but the lyrics came together in as little as twenty minutes. I wrote Ramblin' Man in Berry Oakley's kitchen [at the Big House] at about four in the morning. Everyone had gone to bed but I was sitting up, said Betts in 2014.