Known for their freewheeling, improvisational live shows, the Allman Brothers’ blues-, country-, and soul-tinged sound launched the Southern rock craze of the early 1970s. Duane Allman founded the group in Macon, Gorgia, in 1969 with his brother, vocalist and organ player Gregg. Joining them were Dickey Betts on guitar, Berry Oakley on bass, and Butch Trucks and Jaimoe Johanny Johanson on drums. Despite Duane’s tragic death in a motorcycle accident immediately after their third album (the live At Fillmore East) went gold in 1971 – and Oakley’s death in a motorcycle accident a year later – the band stayed together, producing more chart-topping albums. By the mid-‘70s, drug and alcohol problems, legal mishaps, and Gregg’s troubled relationship with Cher (whom he married twice) caused the group to disband. They reunited in 1989 and became an arena staple.

Reviews

• The Fillmore Concerts
• Brothers of the Road
• Reach for the Sky
• Hittin' the Note
• An Evening With the Allman Brothers Band: 2nd Set
• Where It All Begins
• Win, Lose or Draw
• One Way Out
• Seven Turns
• Dreams
• Enlightened Rogues
• Gold
• Eat a Peach
• Shades of Two Worlds
• Idlewild South
• The Allman Brothers Band
• Brothers and Sisters
• At Fillmore East
• The Essential Allman Brothers Band: The Epic Years
• Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival

Features

• The Allman Brothers Band