Melinda Trucks in the Spotlight
By: Jan Sjostrom For The Palm Beach Daily News 6/29/2003 Being an artist takes fortitude. It’s an undervalued profession dominated by a star system. Creative blocks rear up. If you’re a woman, with the additional responsibilities of caretaking and homemaking, it can be even more difficult to stick with it. But what if you were […]
Allman leaves turbulent rock ‘n’ roll life behind
By: Robert DiGiacomo For The Press of Atlantic City Gregg Allman has lived the high drama of a rock ‘n’ roll life. A founding member of the influential Southern rock group, the Allman Brothers Band, he has suffered the untimely deaths of his brother and bandmate, Duane Allman, and band co-founder Berry Oakley — both […]
New CD finds Allman Brothers Rejuvenated
By: Malcolm X Abram For The Akron Beacon Journal 6/26/2003 The Allman Brothers Band is old. For the better part of 34 years (with a few breaks in between) the band has toured the country laying down sturdy blues rock with touches of jazz, old school R&B and country. It produced one of rock’s most […]
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, […]
The “Lost” Interview – Warren Haynes-Jeb Wright
This interview took place the day before Allen Woody passed away. It’s possibly been posted on HTW before, but it’s worth a repeat. Warren Haynes up close and personal!
Allman Brothers Band back from the brink
By: Keith Ryan Cartwright For The Tennessean ”It has to do with the music. It’s under my skin and all up in my cells and into my soul. It is my existence.” — Gregg Allman Being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should be a time to celebrate. For many, it’s the […]
Bonaroo 2003: This Year We’re Ready
By: Chip Ramsey For the Gundy County Herald This year, event planners say they are ready for an expected 90,000 people and hope the parking lot that was Manchester last year is avoided. “We were a parking lot by the time the gates opened last year and we just played catch-up the whole weekend,” said […]
Allman Brothers Band Looks Ahead to Summer Tour
By: Rob Evans For LiveDaily The Allman Brothers Band will occupy their summer as they typically do–on the road, playing dozens of concerts at a mix of amphitheaters, festivals and theaters. What’s atypical about this tour is that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members are touring behind a new album–their first new studio […]