If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The Brothers haven’t rocked the stage at Madison Square Garden since 2020, just before the pandemic, but tonight the band including Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Oteil Burbridge, Jaimoe, …
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Standing in front of a raucous sold-out audience at the Macon City Auditorium in Georgia on Friday night, guitarist Duane Betts paid tribute to his late father, Allman Brothers six-string ace Dickey Betts, with a soaring cover of “Ramblin’ Man.” “And when it’s time for leavin’, I’ll hope you’ll understand,” …
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With the passing last year of Dickey Betts, combined with the deaths in the last decade of Gregg Allman and Butch Trucks, tributes to the Allman Brothers Band have taken on a new poignancy. And one of the most highly regarded of those will return to New York’s Madison Square …
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Slash was one of the many guest players when the Allman Betts Family Revival celebrated the music of the Allman Brothers Band in Nashville on Monday night. The Guns N’ Roses guitarist appeared for a trio of performances: “Trouble No More,” “Dreams,” and “Whipping Post.” Each showed off Slash’s innate …
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Jimmy Carter loves music, and on Tuesday night at Atlanta’s historic Fox Theatre an unlikely cast of admirers let the “rock and roll president” know they love him too. Carter, who turns 100 on Oct. 1., was at home in Plains, Ga., but that didn’t stop Angelique Kidjo, the B-52s, …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Last year’s in-depth book release chronicling the Allman Brothers Band‘s most successful album has seen a resurgence after guitaristDickey Betts, founding member of the group,died Thursdayat age 80. …
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Allman Brothers guitarist Dickey Betts died Thursday morning after a battle with cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. “The legendary performer, songwriter, bandleader and family patriarch was at his home in Osprey, Florida, surrounded by his family,” his family said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “Dickey was larger than …
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The surviving members of the Allman Brothers Band have paid tribute “with deep sadness” to guitarist Dickey Betts, a founding member of the group who died Thursday at age 80. “His extraordinary guitar playing alongside guitarist Duane Allman created a unique dual guitar signature sound that became the signature sound …
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In the last few years, CJ Strock,a talent agent who worked with the later incarnation of the Allman Brothers Band, faced an unusual dilemma. As seen in catalog and merch sales, a market still existed for the Allmans, their quintessentially Southern rock & roll, and their improvisational live shows, but …
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