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[R.I.P.] Gregg Allman, Southern Rock Pioneer, Dead at 69

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Gregg Allman, Southern Rock Pioneer, Dead at 69 - Rolling Stone

Gregg Allman, the singer, musician and songwriter who played an essential role in the invention of Southern rock, has died at the age of 69. Allman's rep confirmed his death to Rolling Stone.

Although he claimed the term was redundant, singer-keyboardist Gregg Allman helped create the first great "Southern-rock" group as co-founder of the legendary Allman Brothers Band alongside his older brother, famed guitarist Duane Allman. The Allmans fused country blues with San Francisco-style extended improvisation, and their sound created a template for countless jam bands to come. Gregg Allman was blessed with one of blues-rock's great growling voices and, along with his Hammond B-3 organ playing, beholden to Booker T. Jones, had a deep emotional power. Writing in Rolling Stone, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons said that Allman's singing and keyboard playing displayed "a dark richness, a soulfulness that added one more color to the Allmans' rainbow."

As he recounted in his 2012 memoir My Cross to Bear, Allman also experienced a quintessential, and essentially tragic, rock-star trajectory that included too-sudden fame, admittedly excessive drug use, a high-profile celebrity romance, multiple marriages and a late-life liver transplant.
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RIP and now singing in Heaven
 
RIP Greg ... loved all of your music.

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Gregg Allman - I'm No Angel
 
My favorite Allman Bros track. Maybe Greg and Duane are reminiscing now, I hope so.

 
Rest in peace.
 
when I was ten or so, my cousin told me the best band he had ever heard was the ABB and we were at his house and he played "troubled no more" and "Dreams"

While the ABB was not my favorite band but clearly they were one of the best there was-so much talent GA was one of the best southern blues voices ever and truly a musical genius.

however, given his years of drug abuse, I am somewhat surprised he lived this long.

he was one of the best songwriters to come out of the USA in the last 50 years.

so many good songs

 
My beloved late mother, many years ago, cornered Gregg in a hotel elevator. She asked him to meet with the hotel consierge. The consierge had named a daughter in honor or Gregg's song "Melissa". Gregg obliged... and signed an album. The consierge upgraded my mother's flight free of charge to 1st Class. I love that story.. all 5 feet of my mother face to face with 6'5" Gregg... Gregg, by then, a respectable southern gent following through on her request.

I grew up in Florida deeply influenced by the Allman's Brothers' Band. Gregg reportedly battled drug addiction off and on. I believe Gregg rolled over during a 1985 drug bust in Key West. Among my peers, this violated our ethical code. Junkies don't have a reputation for principled actions.

About ten years ago, Gregg fired Dickie Betts from the band. Dickie lives in Sarasota County in a town called Osprey. His dad, Col. Betts, owned a house within 50 yards of my Sarasota home for about 20 years.
 
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