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Gregg Allman

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Gregg Allman's most visible contribution to rock music is as lead singer, organist, and songwriter within the Allman Brothers Band, founded by his brother Duane (d. 1971) in 1969. He has never threatened to eclipse the band that carries his family name, but he has found occasional success and popularity with his solo work, which is distinctly different, more soulful and less focused on high- wattage virtuosity. Allman's instrument is the organ, and he is most effective, when he is in top form, as a singer. His first instrument, ironically enough, was the guitar, and he took it up before his older brother Duane did

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Article: Live Review

Blues From the Top Festival 2025

Read "Blues From the Top Festival 2025" reviewed by Geoff Anderson


Blues From the Top Festival Winter Park, COJune 27-29, 2025 The Town of Winter Park and Grand County have been hosting this summer blues festival for 23 years now. During that time, the festival has grown from a small start-up operation in a field to a three-day festival with national ...

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Article: Big Band in the Sky

Dickey Betts: Another Man Done Gone

Read "Dickey Betts: Another Man Done Gone" reviewed by Doug Collette


Although Forrest Richard 'Dickey' Betts did not share the surname of the Allman Brothers Band to which he contributed so significantly, in terms of success both creatively and commercially, he was arguably as responsible for the seminal blues rockers' legacy as the two namesakes of the group, Duane and Gregg. And it does not ...

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Article: Book Review

Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and The Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s

Read "Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and The Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s" reviewed by Doug Collette


Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and The Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s Alan Paul 352 pages ISBN: # 978-1250282699 St. Martin's Press Year 2023 Alan Paul's Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and The Inside Story of the Album That ...

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Article: Album Review

Taj Mahal: Savoy

Read "Savoy" reviewed by Steve Yip


Folk/blues practitioner Taj Mahal's Savoy is to be savored. As one of the custodians of the blues, Mahal has long been a legend in his own time. This collection traverses a cultural-musical continuum in an indispensable residency in the annals of Black American music. The namesake of this album--the Savoy on Lenox Avenue in ...

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Syria Mosque Pittsburgh, PA January 17, 1971

Label: The Allman Brothers Band Recording Company
Released: 2022
Track listing: Statesboro Blues; Trouble No More; Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’; In Memory of Elizabeth Reed; Midnight Rider; You Don’t Love Me; Whipping Post.

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Article: Book Review

Play All Night!: Duane Allman and The Journey to Fillmore East

Read "Play All Night!: Duane Allman and The Journey to Fillmore East" reviewed by Doug Collette


Play All Night!: Duane Allman and The Journey to Fillmore East Bob Beatty 272 Pages ISBN: #978-0813069500 University Press of Florida2022 Reading Bob Beatty's Play All Night!: Duane Allman and The Journey to Fillmore East is sometimes akin to becoming embroiled in a tortuous tug-of-war between the author's intellect ...

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Article: Film Review

Joanne Shaw Taylor: Blues From The Heart Live

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Joanne Shaw Taylor Blues From the Heart Live KTBA Records 2022 The title of Joanne Shaw Taylor's Blues From The Heart Live is no more redundant than the one assigned to her last studio release. On The Blues Album (KTBA Records, 2021), the British blueswoman revealed the roots and influences ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Henry Kaiser & Rome Yamilov and Bernard Allison: Blues Changes

Read "Henry Kaiser & Rome Yamilov and Bernard Allison: Blues Changes" reviewed by Doug Collette


Is blues music the most mutable of all musical forms? It's a question worth asking when taking into account the expanse of styles within the genre that stretch all the way from the skeletal acoustic likes of Son House and Reverend Gary Davis to the earthshaking electric onslaughts of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Henry ...

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The Final Note - Painters Mill Music Fair, Owings Mills, MD 10-17-71

Label: Allman Brothers Band Recording Company
Released: 2020
Track listing: Statesboro Blues; Trouble No More; Don’t Keep Me Wondering; Done Somebody Wrong; One Way Out; In Memory of Elisabeth Reed; Hot ‘Lanta; Whipping Post.


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