The Allman Brothers Band is Only Getting Better With Age
By: Jim Zahner Savannah Morning News Seeing an Allman Brothers show is a lot like seeing the past come to life. Songs that were written and performed more than 30 years ago still have the same energy and distinct sound that made the band famous. Sure, Duane Allman and Berry Oakley, two original band members, […]
Southbound With JNB & HopHead
By: JNB WOW – finally back to Hot’lanta after a wonderful road trip to FLA with Hophead! We’ve been doing this for about the last decade and this little adventure was one of the finest. It’s always special to see the dTb and the ABB perform in their home state. Lot’s of old friends and […]
It’s Still a Family Celebration
By: Thom Smith Palm Beach Post The Allman Brothers Band has always been about family. From the communal Big House during the pre-fame days in Macon, Ga., to the present of comfortable living and noodling grandchildren, good times and bad, death and divorce, the family has persevered… and thrived. “I’m having a (expletive) ball,” drummer […]
West Palm Beach show, 9/13/02
NEW-LOOK ALLMANS SOUND STILL REIGNS Palm Beach Post 9/15/02 By BILL MEREDITH Jam bands are the music industry’s current rage, even if most are only non-jazz groups that improvise (often because they can’t compose decent music). But 30 years before the term existed, the Allman Brothers Band was pushing the improv envelope – plus composing […]
Warren Haynes On the Record
By: HopHead At the Daytona Beach Oceanside Convention Center last night during the drum solo in the new instrumental, Warren motioned for us to follow him to his dressing room. I was amazed at first, thinking “Who me?” but Warren motioned again and said “C’mon!” We sat down with him for about ten minutes and […]
ABB’s Ruth Ekerd Show is a Magical Doozy
By: Gina Vivinetto St. Petersburg Times CLEARWATER — The Allman Brothers Band invited 2,149 fans at Saturday’s spectacular sold-out show at Ruth Eckerd Hall to join it in its newest incarnation — and it’s a doozy. Founding members keyboardist Gregg Allman and drummer Butch Trucks, who got the band going in 1969 with Gregg’s late […]
Incredible Show!!!
WOW!!! Caught the Brothers in West Palm Beach, FL last night. WOW!! Warren is amazing! Derek is a true artist. The drummers (all three) were so tight! The bassist – fantastic! Gregg was the best I have seen him in who knows how long. Thanks for a memorable night guys. Great musicians, I have noticed, […]
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 […]
16 Year Old Meets Gregg at a Boxing Match
My name is Jonathan Murphy. I’m from Effingham County Ga. I’m a huge Allman Brothers Band fan. I love all of their stuff all the way back to the Allman Jand the Hour Glass. My dad has always played in bands. He brought me up listening to classic rock, blues and early r&b. I was […]
Allman Brothers Still Magical
By: David Malachowski Times Union Thirty-one years ago The Allman Brothers Band played its first ever concert in Saratoga. On many levels, this year’s burning transcendent set was just as magical as way back then. It was the sunny Saturday afternoon of May 15, 1971, that the ABB, then relatively unknown, stunned the unsuspecting listeners […]
Butch Trucks – Walking in Frodo’s footsteps
By: Jeff Spevak Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, NY) Butch Trucks’ day is off to a good start. He has just returned from a morning shopping to one of the mega-bookstores near his Manhattan apartment to pick up a DVD of The Lord of the Rings. He has seen the movie 13 times and read the […]
Band of Brothers
By JAMES HEANEY NEWS STAFF 8/16/2002 The road may indeed go on forever for the Allman Brothers Band. Drummer Butch Trucks says he and his bandmates are having the time of their lives. They’re getting along famously, playing better than ever and have finished work on what Trucks said is “the best recording we’ve made […]