Thanks to Ioannis for new ABB Look
Short and sweet story here — much thanks to Ioannis, ABB fan and creative director of the design firm Vivid Images Worldwide, for the graphics now adorning the header of this site, Hittin’ The Web with the Allman Brothers Band. Does it look familiar? Could be because Vivid Images designed the cover of Where It […]
ABB Discovers TM Secret
The Allman Brothers Band has discovered that TicketMaster presales supposedly limited to American Express credit card holders can actually be accessed by other credit cards. This means concert goers with a Visa, or other major credit card, can purchase tickets to the ABB’s 8/13 Jones Beach show during the TM AmEx pre-sale – or tickets […]
Warren Haynes is Here, There & Everywhere at Jazzfest
Robin Rothman MTV news “This is the 736th time he’s sat in with us,” Blues Traveler’s John Popper joked as guitarist Warren Haynes joined the group for its song “Pattern” at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Thursday evening. “That’s actually the most sit-ins of any band on the East Coast since 1962,” Popper […]
Allman Brothers Band Back in the Studio
The Allman Brothers Band is back in the studio, finishing 4 more tracks for the new CD – “Old Before My Time”, “Firing Line”, the as yet unnamed new instrumental, and another untitled surprise. The CD is targeted for release Q1 ’03. Chalk the Allman Brothers Band up as one of the artists responding to […]
The Fillmore Concerts as a Defining Cultural Text
Matt Bouffard When rhythm and blues met country and put on a white face in the mid 1950s, rock and roll was born and the new genre soon displaced jazz as the dominant popular music in American culture. Though it has suffered periodic lulls in the years since, especially recently, rock and roll must be […]
Cajai Prowls a National Stage in ‘Lion King’
PATRICIA WEISS New York Times Sunday April 14 2002 Last month’s Oscars may offer encouragement to rising stars of color everywhere, but Cajai Fellows Johnson of Bloomfield has not been sitting around waiting for role models like Halle Berry and Denzel Washington to unlatch doors to her future. After years of singing and dancing lessons, […]
ABB are Florida Rock & Roll Legends
Dangerous Mules
April 19, 2002: Gov’t Mule (with Alvin Youngblood Hart) at the Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL. Marley Seaman Traffic was slow, but Brofan still got us to the Riv in plenty of time to see Alvin Youngblood Hart’s set. Alvin is an interesting performer: he played a fairly brief solo electric set that mixed elements of […]