Greg Potter Digs Retirement
By: Susan Larson For: The Gwinnett Daily Post Life gets nifty after 50, especially when you can spend the rest of your life being the president of the Georgia Allman Brothers Band Association. That’s how it is for Greg Potter of Lilburn. Potter worked for years as a landscaper and even taught courses at Gwinnett […]
Eat A Peach album art was heavenly
By:Ty Burr For: The Boston Globe So double albums are making a comeback? Big deal. They’re still CDs, and they’re still packaged in a case the size of a cocktail napkin. Massive pop ambition isn’t something you should be able to hold in one hand. The double albums of the vinyl era — and their […]
Allman Brothers head back to New York‘s Beacon
By: Ray Waddell For: Billboard Like the mushrooms of spring, the Allman Brothers Band has popped up in New York each March for a sold-out run of dates at the 2,894-capacity Beacon Theater. The Allmans‘ Beacon gigs have evolved into one of the more truly special artist/venue relationships in the business. The shows hark back […]
Morse coda
By: Carol Beggy and Mark Shanahan For The Boston Globe For years, concert promoter Don Law suffered the slings and arrows of Steve Morse, the Globe rock critic who just retired after 31 years. Monday, Law got a measure of revenge, playfully skewering our man Morse at a party that was equal parts roast and […]
A Train Like No Other
By: TanDan January 6, 2006 There is a train that exists that has no schedule. It is never late and always has room for one more passenger, no matter how full. It is not the ‘Peace Train’, nor ‘The City of New Orleans’. This train has no name and it’s track goes around the globe. […]
Allman Brothers Band Plans 13 March Madness Shows
By: Barry A. Jeckell For: Billboard The Allman Brothers Band will continue a long-standing tradition with a 13-show residency at New York’s Beacon Theatre in March. Tickets for shows March 9-11, 13-14, 16-18, 20-21 and 23-25 will go on sale Friday (Jan. 6) via Ticketmaster and range in price from $49.99 to $89.99. At deadline, […]
Live Music On Demand
By: Edna Gunderson For: USA Today December 14, 2005 In pop antiquity, the fan who missed the hot-ticket rock show had to settle for a breathless critique, a muddy bootleg or the negligible possibility that a song, buffed and overdubbed, might crop up years later on a live album. Today, consumers can pick up freshly […]
Revamped Allman Brothers Find Their Groove
Melissa Ruggieri Times-Dispatch Staff Writer 30 September 2005 The Richmond Times-Dispatch, page D-1 “The words might not have been there, but the band’s love of where it is in this phase of its career was obvious.“ The devout will tell you this is the best The Allman Brothers Band has sounded in years – and […]
Allman Brothers Band Gets the Creek Moving
By: Hisham Salama For: The Technician “This concert included more music than any one person could handle for a night, or even an entire weekend. If you missed the Allman Brothers this year, don’t let it happen next fall.” Friday night marked the 15th year The Allman Brothers Band played at Walnut Creek, and the […]
ABB keeps on staying in tune
By Daniel Durchholz 15 September 2005 St. Louis Post-Dispatch Quick, who is the best American band of the rock era? Is it Creedence Clearwater Revival, which condensed elements of rockabilly, country and R&B into a series of irresistibly catchy roots-rock singles in the late 1960s and early ’70s? Perhaps it’s Bruce Springsteen & the E […]