Gregg feature article from RS


So much of this article talks about the details of his personal struggles that he detailed in My Cross to Bear (a book I found hard to read and full of a lot of "fishing stories" that I honestly never could get through more than just sections).
That said, the writer did end it on the positive. High praise for 3 of the last 4 ABB albums. High praise for Low Country Blues and the way the ABB ended in 2014 and mostly good things to say about the final 25 years of the ABB.

I'm happy Gregg found some peace in his later years. Its amazing that he was able to live as long as he did with the addictions he had.
The writer obviously holds Duane in high esteem:
In March 1971, they recorded two of their three performances at the Fillmore East in New York, for a two-record set that would be widely regarded as the greatest live album ever. In concert, the Allmans earned every inch of their adulation. Night after night, Duane would stand centerstage, and, bouncing lightly on his heels, he would begin constructing meditative, rhapsodic solos that ended up going places that rock had never gone before. He thought in perfectly formed complete lines, with all the grace and dynamics of a carefully considered composition. He was perhaps the most melodically expressive instrumentalist rock would ever witness.
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