Allman Brothers Band Jams at Bonnaroo
By: Brian Mansfield For USA Today Positioned just so at the Bonnaroo Music Festival on Friday, one could hear Lucinda Williams’ languid folk-rock, the sweaty saxophone funk of Joshua Redman and the exploratory rock sounds of Tortoise. “I was out in the playground with my kids, and I could hear all three,” Al Schnier said. […]
3 Days of Partying and Music
By: Rita Bauer For The Tullahoma News They came from New York, Missouri, Wisconsin, Texas, Illinois, and every-where in between, and looking at them made a person feel like they were back in the ’60’s. They came for three days of music this Friday through Sunday at the Sam McAllister farm off Brushy Branch Road […]
Nowhere in the World They’d Rather Be
By: Stacy Smith Segovia For the Leaf-Chronicle Bonnaroo sold out — all 80,000 tickets — in just 18 days last spring. And judging from the happy, friendly people populating the 600-acre festival site this weekend, there is nowhere in the world ticket holders would rather be. The festival, held on a pristine farm in Manchester, […]
ABB Featured in Guitar World Acoustic #60
Alan Paul strikes again with another great Allman Brothers Band interview feature. Appropriately titled “All in the Family,” the five page spread in Guitar World Acoustic No. 60 features great color and black & white shots of the guys playing acoustic, and an interview with Gregg, Warren, and Derek. Subtitled “Guitarists Warren Haynes and Derek […]
A Tale of Two Guitars
By: Ben Ratliff For the New York Times Each year, the Allman Brothers Band repeats a remarkable feat: filling the Beacon Theater night after night in a true New York City residency. As with the late-period Grateful Dead, the group’s records are souvenirs more than essential documents — a couple of live albums in the […]
Allman Brothers Rocks it in NYC
Allman Brothers rocks it in NYC By Rebecca Shields – Johns Hopkins Newsletter March 21, 2003 Thirty-four years later and still jamming like the 1970s, the Allman Brothers hit the stage Saturday night at the Beacon Theatre in New York City ready to recreate the musical magic of years before. The Brothers have often been […]
Band of Brothers Alive and Clicking
By Dan Aquilante For the New York Post, 3/21/03 When you wait long enough, history has a way of repeating itself. Take the Allman Brothers Band, which opened its annual March Madness run at the Beacon Theatre last week. It was more than 30 years ago that the band recorded their seminal, revered live album, […]
Mixing the Allman Brothers Band
By: Candace Horgan For Mix Online The current incarnation of the Allman Brothers Band is unquestionably one of the strongest they’ve put together in their long history; some fans even believe it is comparable to the original lineup that included Duane Allman, Berry Oakley and Dicky Betts. This year marks the 31st anniversary of the […]
Hittin’ the High Points of Hittin’ the Note
By: Sal Cirrincione For: Rock Daily Gregg Allman recently sat down with us to discuss the new ABB album and the story behind the disc’s name: Gregg Allman: We went in and cut this record over in Hoboken [N.J.]. The first day we went, we got four cuts; the second day we went, we got […]
Draw a Bead on Some Fun
From the Orlando Sentinel. The beads will fly as Universal Studios’ eighth annual Mardi Gras gets under way tonight. We’re talking millions of strands of beads, the ones that are pitched from the colorful floats, 14 of them, designed by Blaine Kern, whose New Orleans company has built Mardi Gras floats since 1932. The theme […]