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"I wish dad was still here,” he guitarist continued. “But doing this makes me feel like he's always going to be here with me ...
During a recent solo concert, Vince Gill introduced the audience to an unreleased song from his next album while playing a ...
If you are in Macon, look up the Big House. You will no doubt see the 1957 Goldtop on display. This is the guitar Allman bought in ’69, developing the archetypical southern slide guitar sound on it.
Duane Allman’s Gibson SG, one of the world's most valuable guitars, is included in a music collection on display in Athens, Georgia, at Akins Ford Arena.
Devon Allman met Duane Betts for the first time back in 1989. The two were out on the road with their dads — the late, great Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts — after the Allman Brothers Band had ...
Duane had died not too long before then, so it knocked the wind out of everybody’s balloon.” It was in that context that Betts called Dudek back for further jams, even after the Allman ...
Southern Rock can be linked back to March 26th, 1969 when Duane Allman, the founder and leader of the Allman Brothers Band, summoned his brother Gregg to join a band he patched together that was ...
Duane Betts has performed his share of Allman Brothers standards over the years, with his father and without, helping to keep the band’s storied legacy alive when playing with The Allman Betts Band, ...
Dickey Betts, whose country-inflected songwriting and blazing, lyrical guitar work opposite Duane Allman in the Allman Brothers Band helped define the Southern rock genre of the ‘60s and ‘70s ...
Dickey Betts, legendary Allman Brothers co-founder and guitarist, dies at 80 Betts, who had been suffering from ill-health since his last performance in 2018, died in his Florida home ...
Dickey Betts, a honky-tonk hell raiser who, as a guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band, traded fiery licks with Duane Allman in the band’s early-1970s heyday, and who went on to write some of ...