Allman Brothers Band still Rocks Hard Live
By: Malcolm X Abram For the Beacon Journal Apparently the road does go on forever. Gregg Allman and the band that carries his name sang those words about 30 years ago, but Wednesday night, July 2, at Tower City Amphitheater, they once again proved that old lyric to be true. The band has survived the […]
New CD finds Allman Brothers Rejuvenated
By: Malcolm X Abram For The Akron Beacon Journal 6/26/2003 The Allman Brothers Band is old. For the better part of 34 years (with a few breaks in between) the band has toured the country laying down sturdy blues rock with touches of jazz, old school R&B and country. It produced one of rock’s most […]
Allman Brothers Band back from the brink
By: Keith Ryan Cartwright For The Tennessean ”It has to do with the music. It’s under my skin and all up in my cells and into my soul. It is my existence.” — Gregg Allman Being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should be a time to celebrate. For many, it’s the […]
Bonaroo 2003: This Year We’re Ready
By: Chip Ramsey For the Gundy County Herald This year, event planners say they are ready for an expected 90,000 people and hope the parking lot that was Manchester last year is avoided. “We were a parking lot by the time the gates opened last year and we just played catch-up the whole weekend,” said […]
Allman Brothers Band Looks Ahead to Summer Tour
By: Rob Evans For LiveDaily The Allman Brothers Band will occupy their summer as they typically do–on the road, playing dozens of concerts at a mix of amphitheaters, festivals and theaters. What’s atypical about this tour is that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members are touring behind a new album–their first new studio […]
All Good — Gregg Allman and Warren Haynes
By: Jimmy Leslie For: Gig Magazine 1 May 2003 The Allman Brothers Band is still one of the top attractions in the live concert industry after over 30 years of touring. Like the Grateful Dead, they’ve always been a draw regardless of whether the new album went gold or not. In fact, a new album […]
My Week At the Beacon
By: Lee from Michigan My normal Beacon trip consists of picking one of the 3-day weekends, Thursday thru Saturday. That was the original plan this year as well. Then I got to talking to JodyGirl and she suggested I come on Wednesday because you just never know when a spring snow storm will occur. Good […]
Crossroads
By: Alan Paul For: Guitar World This story should have been up a week ago, so I’m going to dispense with a flowery introduction and cut right to the chase. The Allman Brothers Band 2003 rock all over the place. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing three of their 13 sold-out shows at New York’s […]
Parting With A Piece of the Brotherhood
By: Ed Grisamore For: The Macon Telegraph A pair of Elvis Presley’s sunglasses once sold for $23,000 at an auction. Just last week, a Spanish hairdresser paid $1,550 for a lock of Beatle George Harrison’s hair from 1964. So Macon’s Larry Brantley was convinced he was holding a valuable piece of music property. For 30 […]
Allman Brothers Band Soldiers On
By: Steve Knopper For: Newsday If anybody in rock deserves to sing the line “now all the things that used to mean so much to me/Have made me old before my time,” it’s Gregg Allman. Since he and his brother, Duane, founded the Allman Brothers Band 34 years ago, the singer-keyboardist has had to cope […]