Todays post is brought to you by Widespread Panic’s “Picking Up the Pieces,” a groovy little ditty from their 1993 album, Everyday, produced by Duane and Gregg’s Hour Glass bandmate, and later ABB producer, Johnny Sandlin.
What’s been shaking at Long Live the ABB?
NEW POSTS
Here are my latest 4 posts:
Playlist Project: “Duane’s Musical Ethos” playlist for Play All Night chapter 1
Odds & Sods ABB’s “lost” album, “Song for Adam,” more instrumentals
I am not unbiased about Duane & the Allman Brothers Preface to Play All Night! Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East
At Fillmore East as an Artistic Statement Duane Allman’s masterpiece
NEW SOURCES
The Allman Brothers Band: A Biography in Words and Pictures (1976)
Marginalia: annotated read of the above (2024)
PLAYLIST
Baker’s Dozen vol. 1: Love They Deserve ABB-inspired playlist featuring: The New Mastersounds w/Lamar Williams Jr.; Gabe Dixon; Sea Level; Gregg Allman; Tedeschi Trucks Band; Junior Wells w/Derek Trucks; Dickey Betts and Great Southern; Duane Betts and Palmetto Motel; Gov’t Mule; the Yeti Trio; Frogwings; the Allman Brothers Band w/Jack Pearson; Eric Church from the Gregg Allman tribute.
John Coltrane (1966) on the power of music
“I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know that there are bad forces. I know that there are forces out here that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force, which is truly for good.”
I have it queued up to the quote, but the whole thing is well worth checking out.
WATCH:
Walking the Duane Allman Fanboy/Scholar Tightrope video of yours truly talking with my dissertation advisor and Tennessee state historian Dr. Carroll Van West about Play All Night! Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East.
More on Southern Blood. Wrote about Southern Blood here and recently shared a story about “Song for Adam.” A reader1 sent this in response. Thought y’all would dig it.
READ:
Dickey tribute. The July 2024 Vintage Guitar magazine had a really nice multipage tribute to Dickey Betts.
New Warren Haynes album. Multiple ABB mentions in this Guitar World feature on Warren Haynes’s new record: “Warren Haynes reunites with Derek Trucks to revive a lost Allman Brothers song on his forthcoming solo album.”
Billboard’s “The 100 Most Iconic Guitars of All Time: Complete List Revealed” includes Duane Allman's 1961 Les Paul/SG2 at #29 and at #69, Derek Trucks’s SG (reissue of Duane’s) and Susan Tedeschi’s 1993 Telecaster.
Aristotle — How to live a good life from
. “So for us to live a good life means to have an excellent soul. And this excellence reveals itself in a clear intellect and a noble character.” Read more.The Making of Appalachian Music. Found this on the Ballad of America site. It’s a long read, but man is it worth it. Thoroughly sourced and comes with playlists!
Post script
Shared this on social media3 and figured y’all might like it too.
Thanks Craig!
Here’s more on Duane’s SG. “What makes an instrument iconic.”
