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
Posts tagged Gregg Allman
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
Laid Back Festival – 7/16 – Firstmerit Bank Pavilion (Chicago, IL)
This year, Gregg Allman’s Second Annual Laid Back Festival (which gets its name from Allman’s solo 1973 debut LP) will travel to five American cities for jam-pack one day events. On July … 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
Gregg Allman & The Doobie Brothers Announce Joint Summer Tour
Two Southern rock legends will be hitting the road together this summer as Gregg Allman and the Doobie Brothers will be linking up for a late summer tour of the … Read more
Director Of Gregg Allman Biopic Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter
Director Randall Miller pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass, charges stemming from the death of camera assistant Sarah Jones during the filming of Miller’s since-abandoned Gregg Allman biopic Midnight … Read more
Gov’t Mule To Release New Live Album Featuring Toots Hibbert From Toots…
Gov’t Mule, as a part of their ongoing 20th anniversary series of archival live recordings, is releasing an album documenting their famed 2006 New Year’s Eve show at New York’s … Read more
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
