Duane’s Mountain of Green
By: Bill Thames Every new event and each person that we meet in our life is filtered through our own unique set of experiences. Like a computer, we compare new people and places to the ones neatly catalogued in our minds, make our assessments and comparisons, and then we neatly file the experience away for […]
Little Martha’s Death is Not Her Own
Holding a single blooming rose, a haunting memorial to a little girl has become part of Southern rock folklore By Travis Fain Telegraph Staff Writer 10 November 2003, Macon Telegraph Copyright (c) 2003 Macon Telegraph. All rights reserved. Little Martha’s death is not her own. The Southern myths of rock adopted her long ago, bringing […]
Band Leader Duane Allman Dies in Bike Crash
By: Jon Landau For Rolling Stone “Ol’ Duane was married to his music, the truth be known,” a close friend reflected after the funeral rites. “I guess him dyin’ so young, though, was almost inevitable. He had a wild and reckless streak in him, and apart from pickin’ his git-tar, he’d get…bored. I guess you […]
A Lesson Carved in Stone
By: William M. Thames III Even today at age fifty-three, on rare occasions, that vague nagging feeling in the pit of my stomach returns—that unpleasant feeling that my stomach is trying to crawl up into my throat, and empty its bounty of churning butterflies. To a young teenage musician, stage fright can be a terrifying, […]
‘Beginnings’ Showcases Duane Allman’s Brilliance
By Spencer Patterson 29 August 2003, the Las Vegas Sun In the pantheon of rock legends cut down in their prime, Duane Allman rarely gets his due. It’s not hard to figure out why. The guitarist’s fatal motorcycle accident occurred in October 1971, just months after the deaths of the more prominent trio of Jimi […]
Duane Allman “Transformed the Poetry of Jamming”
NewsWire Reports 8/26/2003 Jimi Hendrix was the greatest guitarist in rock history, according to a list of guitar greats produced by Rolling Stone magazine. Hendrix set his guitars and the rock world alight with his versatile and vigorous performances before his death in 1970 aged 27. He beat Duane Allman – from the Allman Brothers […]
Skydog
WAIL ON SKYDOG,PLAY IT LOUD MAKE IT MOAN.TRAVEL HIGH ON THE FRETBOARD TO PLACES UNKNOWN.TAKE ME HIGH ON A MOUNTAIN OR A COOL RUNNING STREAM.YOU AND YOUR BROTHERS MADE ONE HELL OF A TEAM.LEANING BACK ON A HARLEY HAIR INTO THE WIND,HOW COULD YOU KNOW IT WOULD BE YOUR LAST SPIN.30 YEARS HAVE PASSED IN […]
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 […]
Duane And Gregg
This is an addition to your discography. The album is entitled Duane and Gregg. It is an early Polydor release. The album cover features the same likenesses as on Idlewild South (white outline drawings of Duane and Greggs faces on a black background) The sound quality of this record is actually quite poor but it […]
Duane Showed Southern Musicians the Way to Go
By Ed Bumgardner Winston-Salem Journal For most young music fans, Oct. 29 is just another day. But for those musicians who grew up Southern, the day marks the anniversary of guitarist Duane Allman’s death – a time for remembrance, for futile speculation and for giving thanks for the music that he made and left behind […]
The Flower Guy and His Younger Brother
By Rick de Yampert Daytona Beach News-Journal Entertainment Writer DAYTONA BEACH — Floyd Miles remembers the flowers. His wife had just given birth to their first daughter and his friend — this kid, really, because Miles himself was just 17 — brought flowers to the hospital. Brad Yates remembers how he and his friends often […]
The Serendipity of Two Musical Heroes: Duane Allman and John Coltrane
By: David Gardiner I encountered your website for the first time today. I have enjoyed the Allman Brothers since I listened to them in high school in the early 1970s. I saw them live once but shortly after Duane died. I have long found inspiration in his guitar playing, and have often felt a remarkable […]