News

Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa's resident live music freak. He started freelancing with the paper in 2020 at the age of 18, and has since covered, announced, and previewed numerous live shows ...
The story behind the federal drug trial and the Gregg Allman testimony that brought The Allman Brothers Band to a temporary end.
It concluded: “Betts joins his brothers, Duane Allman, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks and Gregg Allman, as well as ABB crew members Twiggs Lyndon, Joe Dan Petty, Red Dog, Kim Payne and Mike Callahan ...
Betts co-founded the Allman Brothers Band in 1969, with brothers Duane and Gregg Allman, Berry Oakley Jr., Butch Trucks, and Jai Johanny Johanson, a.k.a. Jaimoe. Jaimoe is the only surviving ...
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 Allman, his brother Gregg Allman and the two other founding members of The Allman Brothers moved to Macon in 1969 to work with Phil Walden of Capricorn Records, according to the biography.
Duane Betts isn’t quite sure how this year’s Allman Betts Family Revival tour will feel. The eighth annual celebration — meant to honor the music of Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts and 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 ...
This fall, The Allman-Betts Band, fronted by Devon Allman and Duane Betts (Gregg and Dickey’s sons, respectively), will take classic tracks like “Melissa,” “Midnight Rider,” “Whipping ...
They had also suffered countless tragedies, including the deaths of founding members Duane Allman and Berry Oakley. Struggling under the weight of grief and fame, Gregg Allman began taking pills ...
Tragedy struck the group when Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident in 1971 and Oakley was killed in a motorcycle crash a year after. Betts and Gregg Allman became the band’s leaders ...