Can Daytona Beach rock the cradle again?
Daytona Beach News Journal, 23 January 2005, page 8H By Rick de Yampert Entertainment Writer Years before Gregg and Duane Allman electrified the rock music world with the Allman Brothers Band, the siblings were honing their blues and rock chops in Daytona Beach in the mid-1960s with their band the Allman Joys. Years before Terence […]
2005 Bonnaroo Music Festival Initial Artist Announcement
Superfly Productions and A.C. Entertainment are proud to announce the initial lineup for the 2005 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. The fourth annual three-day camping and music festival will be held on June 10-12, 2005, on the same 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, 60 miles south of Nashville. A list of confirmed acts follows, with […]
Gregg Allman: Life on the Straight and Narrow
By: Jeff Royer For Fly Magazine Over the phone from his home in Georgia, Gregg Allman is hooting and cackling like a madman. He’s like a Rodney Dangerfield record stuck on a slow rpm, ripping off one-liners like a snail on acid, his thick southern drawl only exaggerating the situation. In between bursts of crazy […]
ABB “lit up” The Warehouse in Nawlins
Night moves: Peggy Scott Laborde’s latest prime-time nostalgia trip confirms what we’ve always known: The nighttime has always been the right time to be in New Orleans. By Dave Walker 17 November 2004, The Times-Picayune The latest in a long series of keepsake documentaries from Peggy Scott Laborde, “The Nightlife That Was” debuts Thursday at […]
Life, work of recording pioneer Tom Dowd in new DVD
By ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press Writer 23 October 2004, Associated Press Newswires MIAMI (AP) – Ray Charles, Eric Clapton and Gregg Allman called him a friend. Many others in the music industry called him a pioneer of modern recording techniques. Regardless, few music fans know the vast influence of Tom Dowd. From his work engineering […]
Gregg Allman & new Friends are Back on the Road
Gregg Allman & Friends are going back on the road for a four week tour of the east coast and south that begins January 21 in Jim Thorpe, PA. Dates announced so far include: JANUARY 21 (Fri) – PENN’S PEAK Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania 22 (Sat) – MOHEGAN SUN CASINO WOLFE DEN Uncasville, Connecticut 23 (Sun) […]
Bassist Finds Blue Skies with Allmans
By Wayne Bledsoe, bledsoe@knews.com 1 October 2004 The Knoxville News-Sentinel Ace bassist Oteil Burbridge was prepared when he joined the Allman Brothers seven years ago. He had been tutored by Georgia music icon Col. Bruce Hampton. In the early 1980s, Burbridge had been gigging around Atlanta when he encountered Hampton — a musician who was […]
Alman Brothers Band is as Influential as Ever
Extended Family: Allman Brothers Band is as Influential as Ever as It Celebrates 35 Years Together By Mitch Myers Down Beat, 1 October 2004 Volume 71; Issue 10; ISSN: 00125768 In March, the Allman Brothers Band celebrated its 35th anniversary while performing a 10-evening run at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan. The band’s shows at […]
ABB, Lynyrd Skynyrd Hit Road Together for First Time
By Mark Kemp Entertainment Editor The Charlotte Observer, 1 October 2004 Back in the ’70s, you were either an Allmans fan or you were a Skynyrd fan. Those two titans of Southern rock and their fans were big-time rivals, just as the Beatles and Stones had been in the British rock of the ’60s. Plenty […]
Peak Performance At Fillmore East
By Ken Micallef Down Beat, 1 October 2004 Volume 71; Issue 10; ISSN: 00125768 Peak Performance: Shanling SCD-T200 SACD/CD Player Spins The Allman Brothers Band’s At Fillmore East Can an object of art turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse? Can modern high-tech remake old-fashioned live and lo-fi? Can the $2,695 Shanling SCD-T200 SACD/CD […]
Southern rock’s social legacy
By Doug Gross Associated Press Writer 23 September 2004 – Associated Press Newswires ATLANTA (AP) – For many, Southern rock conjures up images of beer drinkin’, hell raisin’ and flapping Confederate flags. In a new book, a former Rolling Stone editor and MTV executive casts the music of such groups as The Allman Brothers and […]
Chuck Leavell inducted into Hall of Fame as performer
APPLAUSE: Don Rhodes column 16 September 2004 – Augusta Chronicle Few Georgia tree farmers can claim to have toured with the Rolling Stones and The Allman Brothers and recorded with Eric Clapton and George Harrison. Keyboardist Chuck Leavell can. When not onstage, he and his wife, Rose Lane, own and manage 1,500 acres of timber […]