The Magic is Back!
By: Libby Lowery What an incredible night of music, beginning with The Derek Trucks Band. I’m just starting to get familiar with this music and this was my first time to see them live, wow, I can’t wait to see them in October in Athens; Patty and Randall, make plans for that one! I love […]
The ABB’s a Fire-breathen’, 7-headed, Rock & Roll Monster
By: Ron Everhart mmm…before I go to bed, I decided to drop back by and say that last night (Salem, VA, 9/18/02), we got the Derek Dreams. As much as I love that tune and as many times as I’ve heard it live & on tape, I couldn’t say I’ve ever heard a more muscular, […]
The Allman Brothers Band is Only Getting Better With Age
By: Jim Zahner Savannah Morning News Seeing an Allman Brothers show is a lot like seeing the past come to life. Songs that were written and performed more than 30 years ago still have the same energy and distinct sound that made the band famous. Sure, Duane Allman and Berry Oakley, two original band members, […]
It’s Still a Family Celebration
By: Thom Smith Palm Beach Post The Allman Brothers Band has always been about family. From the communal Big House during the pre-fame days in Macon, Ga., to the present of comfortable living and noodling grandchildren, good times and bad, death and divorce, the family has persevered… and thrived. “I’m having a (expletive) ball,” drummer […]
West Palm Beach show, 9/13/02
NEW-LOOK ALLMANS SOUND STILL REIGNS Palm Beach Post 9/15/02 By BILL MEREDITH Jam bands are the music industry’s current rage, even if most are only non-jazz groups that improvise (often because they can’t compose decent music). But 30 years before the term existed, the Allman Brothers Band was pushing the improv envelope – plus composing […]
ABB’s Ruth Ekerd Show is a Magical Doozy
By: Gina Vivinetto St. Petersburg Times CLEARWATER — The Allman Brothers Band invited 2,149 fans at Saturday’s spectacular sold-out show at Ruth Eckerd Hall to join it in its newest incarnation — and it’s a doozy. Founding members keyboardist Gregg Allman and drummer Butch Trucks, who got the band going in 1969 with Gregg’s late […]
Incredible Show!!!
WOW!!! Caught the Brothers in West Palm Beach, FL last night. WOW!! Warren is amazing! Derek is a true artist. The drummers (all three) were so tight! The bassist – fantastic! Gregg was the best I have seen him in who knows how long. Thanks for a memorable night guys. Great musicians, I have noticed, […]
Allman Strikes Indecipherable Chord at SPAC
By: Thomas Dimopoulos The Saratogan SARATOGA SPRINGS — A crowd of 8,200 — at least half of whom lay claim to have attended the band’s legendary 1971 Fillmore Theater shows — kicked it back mellow at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center Tuesday night, waiting for the Allman Brothers to take the stage. Dean Martin (not […]
ABB Never Lack for Variety or Creativty
By: Dave Fennessy Pittsburgh Daily News For the past decade or so, an Allman Brothers Band concert has amounted to something of an “oldies” show, where established hits get replayed and often reinterpreted, depending on the shifting configuration of the band on any given tour. Not to imply that’s a bad thing. With solid Hall-of-Fame […]
Allman Brothers Still Magical
By: David Malachowski Times Union Thirty-one years ago The Allman Brothers Band played its first ever concert in Saratoga. On many levels, this year’s burning transcendent set was just as magical as way back then. It was the sunny Saturday afternoon of May 15, 1971, that the ABB, then relatively unknown, stunned the unsuspecting listeners […]