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I have just come across what I consider to be the most well written article on the Allman Brothers Band I have ever read. It is the story of how a young black woman in the South came to embrace the ABB. I'll quote a passage: "The best that southern culture may have ever offered, the Allman Brothers are not isolationist idiots, inbred mad dogs, unrepentant rednecks – they are mine, as grits and bullets and scuppernong wine and the treasures of Stax/Volt are mine. I own them for I left the tribe long ago to sing a song of liberation in their midst. In their long shadow, Macon seemed heaven on Earth; it was essential to eat at Mama Louise's H&H and brave Candace Oakley’s wrath on pilgrimage to Duane and Berry’s graves at Rose Hill. The jams are a site of hope, an inspiration to connect. The band’s legend still sparks me. Like Chiron of Achean myth, the Allmans are wounded healers, both eternal teachers and students, whose music bridges between the mundane and the divine. Those restless knights of blues-rock continue to crusade in our favour, invoking the historical, mythical and metaphorical south enmeshed in pure sound to elevate their music above the same old. To quote Woodrow Wilson’s rave review of D.W. Griffiths' Birth Of A Nation, the Allmans’ classics from 'Don’t Want You No More' to Haynes’ 'Soulshine' are "like history writ with lightning". Their 'Revival' always renews the flesh and the spirit. Yes, this Sister of the Road can feel it. Love is everywhere." You can find the entire article at http://www.rocksbackpages.com/features/allmans/index.html take care, Paul