Long Live the ABB: Conversation from the Crossroads

Long Live the ABB: Conversation from the Crossroads

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Jimi Hendrix/Eric Clapton/Duane Allman: How grief provided inspiration for "Mean Old World"
A puzzling announcement appeared in the Macon Telegraph: Duane Allman was going to join Eric Clapton at Jimi Hendrix's funeral. It didn't happen…
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Fare-thee-well Bob Weir
Watch now | My thoughts on Bob Weir, an artist whose music and approach to music influenced me beyond belief.
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Vitamin ABB🍄Allmans' Artistic Apocalypse at Arista
Trying something new to gauge how Youtube treats my videos.
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Dickey Betts, Vassar’s fiddle, & a visit to the Country Music Hall of Fame
Some thoughts after a visit to the Country Music Hall of Fame with my daughter Tyler.
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I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can.
Watch now | January 1, 1969 diary entry
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December 2025

Marc Quiñones
at the Crossroads of Southern music, history, & culture
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Happy Christmas y’all
Don’t forget to leave a little something for Jimi Claus.
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The Allmans: Waiting for Gregg
Brand-new to the archives: an August 1975 Rolling Stone feature
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I finally did it…I listened to the Allman Brothers’ Arista albums
Thirty+ years of fandom, thousands and thousands of hours of listening, hundreds of ABB & related shows, hours talking with friends, hundreds of…
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Whatever you can see or hear, that’s yours, man. You don’t have to buy it. It’s yours.
Dickey Betts
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How far can you see? That’s how far you can play.
Dickey Betts
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What's with the Mushrooms?
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