There are some ABB books I hadn't read in quite a while. I ran across my copy of "Midnight Riders" by Scott Freeman recently. I hadn't read it in a long time. Regardless of what some think of the book (some don't like it), I enjoyed it. I think Butch hated it. Freeman certainly accumulated a lot of information, though.
I read Kim Payne's book a while back, and that one I just didn't "get". He was kind of all over the place.
Found Willie Perkins' book, "No Saints, No Saviors". That one is pretty good.
The one I really wanted to read again was "Never Ending Groove", the Johnny Sandlin book. That's on the radar for this week. He had an amazing career.
Of course, Alan Paul's stuff is great.
Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.
Book of Tails is one of my favs.
I ran across my copy of "Midnight Riders" by Scott Freeman recently. I hadn't read it in a long time. Regardless of what some think of the book (some don't like it), I enjoyed it. I think Butch hated it. Freeman certainly accumulated a lot of information, though.
I don't think there is anything wrong with what is in Freeman's book. It seemed to me that the band wasn't ready to have their story told at a time they were just clawing their way back and without any control over it. Even though Freeman had conducted open interviews with band members through out the 1980s, the band still held a mistrust of writers and some devout fans stood with them.
I got it when it came out and I appreciated Freeman's inclusion of their music with their story, the extended discography opened me to a bunch of great albums at the time.
I'd recommend Timothy Hoover's Soul Serenade, bio of King Curtis. There's a pretty good chunk about Duane, Curtis, and Delaney's time together. It's amazing the amount of living they all did in the short time they had.
@porkchopbob: I agree with you 100% on Midnight Riders and I never could quite understand the band's heavy criticism of that book. One that is really great and hasn't gotten any mention in this thread was Please Be With Me: A Song For My Father, Duane Allman by Galadrielle Allman. I borrowed it from a friend years ago and eventually I will buy it and read it again, it was so good. Galadrielle never knew her Father, Duane. She was two years old when he died and when she was alive, he was nearly always on the road with ABB. She suffered from horrible depression due to the fact that she was the offspring of this incredibly famous musician, yet had no frame of reference to go on. At one point she was actually suicidal. She resolved all of that by writing this great book. As family, she had access to a slew of insiders who likely would never had opened up to anyone else. The results are a really sterling bio of Duane. It also helped enormously in resolving Galadrielle's depression over never knowing Duane..........she "got to know him" via intense research and conversations with those close to Duane.
