Review: ABB at 2007 New Orleans Heritage & Jazz Festival
By: C. Michael Bailey For: All About Jazz The Allman Brothers Band 2007 New Orleans Jazz And Heritage Festival Munck Music 2007 In the past decade, the Allman Brothers Band has evolved into a finely tuned cohesive unit that specializes in improvisational rock music. Colloquially, the Allmans, like Little Feat, Wide Spread Panic, and the […]
Watch the Magic Happen with the Allman Brothers Band
By: Scott Tady For: The Beaver County Times If you thought the Allman Brothers Band sounded better than usual last year at P-G Pavilion, well, guitarist Derek Trucks won’t argue. “We’ve had a real good run the last two years,” Trucks said. “After a lot of personnel changes and fluctuations, we’ve settled into something really […]
Haynes His Way
By: Jeff Gottlieb For: The Boston Herald Duane Allman will live forever. Never mind the fact that the Allman Brothers Band guitarist died 35 years ago. As Southern rock’s most-storied axeman and the definitive Allman Brothers guitarist, Duane has transcended mortality. This has complicated things for Warren Haynes. When the Allman Brothers Band re-formed in […]
Derek Trucks Interview With Gibson Backstage Pass
By: Sean McDevitt For: Gibson Backstage Pass At the recent Crossroads Guitar Festival in suburban Chicago, phenom guitarist Derek Trucks floored the sold-out audience with stinging slide runs on his ubiquitous Gibson Custom Shop SG ’61 Reissue, which bears autographs from a number of artists with whom he’s crossed paths during his brief but booming […]
Farm Aid Sets New York City Lineup
By: David Bauder AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK — There’s something to be said for consistency – go to Farm Aid and you see John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Neil Young and Dave Matthews. For this year’s inaugural show in New York, they’ll be joined by Counting Crows, the Allman Brothers Band, Montgomery Gentry and the […]
Allman Brothers Band for the Next Generation
By: Jeb Gottlieb For: The Boston Herald It’s not what Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes can do, it’s what they can do together. At last night’s Allman Brothers Band show at Bank of America Pavilion, the two guitar phenoms parlayed their telepathic chemistry into a series of Homeric jams that came close to rivaling the […]
SPAC Savors the Allman Brothers Band
By: Mike Curtin For: The Post Star SARATOGA SPRINGS – As the Saratoga Performing Arts Center enters its fifth decade of pop music presentations, the Allman Brothers Band has become its most regular, and maybe most welcome, visitors. Not Santana, not Steve Miller, not even Chicago has played the Saratoga Springs park with such unerring […]
Allman Brothers Band Takes Crowd to Guitar Heaven
By: David Malachowski For: The Times Union SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Allman Brothers Band has been coming to Saratoga Springs since 1971, when it played a free outdoor concert at Skidmore College that was a musical epiphany for many. This show wasn’t free, but it was worth every penny. From the first note stuck, to […]
Conversation with Oteil Burbrdige
By: Doug Collette For: State of Mind Music Is there a more ebullient modest musician on the planet than Oteil Burbridge? When he was reminded that this year is his tenth anniversary with The Allman Brothers Band, he chortled and almost never stopped throughout the conversation…at least when he discussed his role in the mythic […]
ABB at Newport is Hot!
By: Rick Massimo For The Providence Journal There’s nothing like the real thing. Yesterday was hippie-rock day at the Dunkin’ Donuts Newport Folk Festival, and while bands such as Assembly of Dust, The John Butler Trio and The North Mississippi All-Stars all had their strong points, when their spiritual forefathers The Allman Brothers Band came […]