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 […]
If It’s Live, It’s Probably Already Online
By DAN LEROY 12 September 2004 The New York Times (c) 2004 New York Times Company With his long, lank blond hair, open-toed Birkenstocks and laid-back demeanor, Grayson Brulte, 21, of Fairfield is easy to envision as a concert bootlegger, lugging a recorder into shows and emerging with live tapes of Phish or the Dave […]
Allman Brothers, Hitting The Notes
Allman Brothers, hitting the notes By JEFF MIERS NEWS POP MUSIC CRITIC 9/8/2004 Concert Review The Allman Brothers Band Monday, Darien Lake Performing Arts Center It was a fitting way to see the summer off. On Monday, the Allman Brothers Band took Labor Day revelers at Darien Lake Performing Arts center on a nearly three-hour […]
Allman Band Revels in Glorious Guitars
By Ed Masley Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 7 September 2004 page B-5 Thirty-five years after redefining the improvisational limits of rock ‘n’ roll while expanding the music’s vocabulary with a debut album that set a new standard for what it could, in theory, mean to jam, the Allman Brothers Band reached back and recaptured the twin- guitar […]
Allmans put on spirited show
St. Paul Pioneer Press 1 September 2004, p. 8B By Rob Hubbard Pioneer Press When the brilliant young blues guitarist Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1971, it looked like the Allman Brothers Band would join that era’s influential musicians with tragically brief careers. But something unusual happened: His band decided to […]
Allmans jam at New York State Fair
Southern Rock Glory: Allman Brothers Shifts into Jam-Band Gear for More Than 6,000 fans by Mark Bialczak Staff writer 28 August 2004 – The Post Standard/Herald-Journal, page A2 The Allman Brothers Band showed a flock of fervid fans at the state fair Grandstand Friday night what happens when Gregg Allman and gang switch into full […]
When Dixie Brewed Its Own Brand of Rock Music
by Pat MacEnulty Special to the Observer 27 August 2004 – The Charlotte Observer (NC) DIXIE LULLABY: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South By Mark Kemp. Free Press. 296 pages. $26. Former Rolling Stone writer and editor Mark Kemp, who grew up in Asheboro, has written a ramblin’ man’s […]