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 […]
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 Wraps Up Humanitarian Award
The Allman Brothers Band is being awarded the Lena and Joseph Mandelbaum Humanitarian Award at the 3rd Annual Rock and Wrap it Up! Benefit, which will take place June 12 at Pier Sixty in New York City. Rock and Wrap it Up! is an international volunteer food recovery service that feeds the hungry with leftover […]
ABB and Musicians on Call Share the Healing Power of Music
The Allman Brothers Band has generously donated 2 FRONT ROW concert tickets to Musicians on Call! These tickets are for their March 29th performance at the historic Beacon Theater in New York City. Bid now and help Musicians on Call continue its mission of delivering the Healing Power of Music to the bedsides of patients […]
Jaimoe Hits the Stage with Dick Griffin
The Dick Griffin Band, including Jaimoe, will be gigging at Tobacco Road in NYC 3/23 and 3/24. Besides La MoJai, the players in the band are: Dick Griffin – trombone Jane Getter – guitar Norika – organ They will be playing some original music, some jazz and some blues. Jaimoe’s “really, really happy to be […]
A Pop Life
By: John Dorschner For the Miami Herald Eric Clapton thanked him for making his music better. So did Ray Charles. And the Allman Brothers. And Aretha Franklin. And many others. It was only the general public who hasn’t heard of Tom Dowd, the late Miami master of studio engineering and music producing. That’s about to […]
Buzzy’s Garden
Dan, myself, and two other guys decided about nine years ago to move into our current residence, a home, complete with Japanese garden front and rear. Shortly after we moved in the gardener began to trim and take care of the garden. As it turns out the underbrush was hiding what had appeared to be […]
Butch Trucks Honored With Caregiver Award
By: David Patrick New York Social Diary Thursday night October 3 the 18th annual Rita Hayworth Gala was held in the Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf in New York City. The story of the inception of this gala is well known. Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Miss Hayworth’s daughter by Prince Aly Khan, started this fund-raiser […]
Duane Showed Southern Musicians the Way to Go
By Ed Bumgardner Winston-Salem Journal For most young music fans, Oct. 29 is just another day. But for those musicians who grew up Southern, the day marks the anniversary of guitarist Duane Allman’s death – a time for remembrance, for futile speculation and for giving thanks for the music that he made and left behind […]