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When Dixie Brewed Its Own Brand of Rock Music

by Pat MacEnulty Special to the Observer 27 August 2004 – The Charlotte Observer (NC) DIXIE LULLABY: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South By Mark Kemp. Free Press. 296 pages. $26. Former Rolling Stone writer and editor Mark Kemp, who grew up in Asheboro, has written a ramblin’ man’s […]

Despite hard times, Gregg Allman cherishes memories

By Doug Pullen Newhouse News Service 29 August 2004 – St. Paul Pioneer Press After Duane Allman’s Oct. 29, 1971, death in a motorcycle crash, the band that bears his and brother Gregg’s last name refused to perform on one particular day each month. “It was about four years after he died that we would […]