Posts tagged Gregg Allman

Tommy Talton

When you write lyrics like “The hands on the clock seem to knock at your door with a message you’ve fallen from grace,” you get Duane Allman banging at your … Read more

Goodbye, Butch Trucks

Photo by Arnie Goodman Butch Trucks, one of the Allman Brothers Band’s founding drummers, died on Tuesday, at age 69. Trucks is widely credited for laying the foundation for southern-rock … Read more

FloydFest

FloydFest has situated itself in an idyllic slice of the Appalachian countryside, surrounded by sinewy back roads and big red barns housed in fields of buttercups. Campers get intimate with … Read more

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd exploded in Atlanta’s Fox Theatre in 1976 – the three shows distilled into One More From The Road, a legendary live rock album by any standard. But by … Read more

Gregg Allman

Since The Allman Brothers Band ostensibly called it a day (actually some 16,000 of them), Gregg Allman jumped on the chance to hone to perfection his funky, horn-imbued nine-piece solo … Read more

Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples and friends

Mavis Staples throws a terrific birthday party. By terrific I mean that the City of Chicago declares the day in her honor, other music legends gather from all over the … Read more