The seeds of "Ramblin' Man" were planted during sessions forEat a Peach, and Betts eventually got the lyric down late one night in Oakley's kitchen at the Big House in Macon, Ga., painting a picture of an outlaw type doing the best he can out there. "I guess the song is more or...
Gregory LeNoir Allman was born in Nashville on Dec. 8, 1947, slightly more than a year after Duane. Tragedy struck early for the brothers when their father, Willis Turner Allman, an Army captain who had just returned home, was shot and killed in 1949 while helping a hitchhiker....
This is a photo of the Allman Brothers Band playing the Fillmore East (patched together from a pan in a video; you can click to enlarge it). They were one of owner Bill Graham's favorite bands and he had them play the last three nights' of the hall's closing concerts (June 25, 26...
Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Ga., in October 1971. The band continued on, releasing Eat a Peach in 1972. But in November 1972, Berry Oakley died in a motorcycle crash not far from the site of Duane’s death. The band broke up in 1976, and though it re-form...
Johnny Sandlin, who died from cancer on Sept. 19, 2017 at the age of 72, had worked with the Allman Brothers Band going back to drumming with Gregg and Duane Allman's early group the Hour Glass. He went on to engineer the Allmans' 'At Fillmore East' and 'Eat a Peach,' and produc...
Allman Brothers family gathered in a circle at their "Idlewild South" cabin, held hands, and sang when they had little more than each other during those lean years. Duane had even quoted the lyrical melody during the end of his epic solo during "Mountain Jam" on theEat a PeachLP. Sand...
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