Meet every musician who played in the Allman Brothers Band, from the six founders in 1969 to the lineup that played the final show at New York’s Beacon Theatre in October 2014. Each lineup below lists the full band, and the photos show the members who joined in that lineup. You’ll find the albums and every personnel change in our band chronology.
In the spring of 1969 Duane Allman pulled together the musicians who would define a new kind of American band: two lead guitars, two drummers, a melodic bass and a soul-steeped singer on Hammond organ. They moved to Macon, Georgia, signed with Capricorn Records and, within two years, recorded At Fillmore East.
After losing Duane in October 1971, the band chose not to replace him with another guitarist. Pianist Chuck Leavell joined in the fall of 1972, and when Berry Oakley died that November, Jaimoe's boyhood friend Lamar Williams took over on bass. This lineup made Brothers and Sisters, the band's biggest-selling album.
Two years after the 1976 breakup, Gregg, Dickey, Butch and Jaimoe reunited. Two members of Dickey Betts & Great Southern came with them, restoring the twin-guitar sound for the first time since 1971. The comeback album Enlightened Rogues went gold.
On Arista Records the band moved toward a radio-friendly sound. A second keyboardist was added, and Frankie Toler took Jaimoe's place behind the second drum kit for the 1981 album Brothers of the Road, before the band went on hiatus again in early 1982.
For the band's twentieth anniversary, the four remaining founders re-formed with three newcomers drawn largely from the Dickey Betts Band. Seven Turns (1990) began a creative revival that carried the band through the next decade.
A Bronx-born Latin percussionist joined the two drummers in 1991, adding a third rhythmic voice that became part of the band's sound for the rest of its run.
When Warren Haynes and Allen Woody left in 1997 to focus on Gov't Mule, a jazz-trained bassist and a Nashville guitar ace stepped in.
A 20-year-old slide prodigy with deep family roots in the band joined in 1999. When Dickey Betts departed in 2000, a longtime friend of the band filled the second guitar chair for that summer's tour, before Warren Haynes returned in 2001 for the final lineup that played through October 2014.
