Live Dead & Brothers will tour the Eastern U.S. in spring 2026 to celebrate the early years of the Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers.

“I’ve definitely lived a dangerous life,” admits guitar legend Dickey Betts, “but not really that much different than a lot of other rock and rollers.” Case in point: Of the six original members of ...

The Allman Brothers Band history reads like an Italian opera, with death, betrayal and reconciliation played against a background of worldwide fame, rapturous fans and stunning music. At the center of ...

Howard Duane Allman, born on November 20, 1946, in Nashville, Tennessee, was a pioneering American guitarist, session musician, and the founding leader of the Allman Brothers Band. Raised in a ...

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, died ...

The Allman Brothers changed everything. At the close of the 1960s the band synthesized a vision of pan-musical excellence that ran from country blues to honky tonk to modal jazz, all powered by the ...

The original Allman Brothers Band, the pre-October 29, 1971 version, was the brainchild of Duane Allman. The aural record of the band from this period has been augmented substantially since the advent ...

Thanks to a distinct melting pot of genres, a scintillating dual guitar act that reinvented the wheel for two-pronged player partnerships and a borderline unrivaled live energy, the Allman Brothers ...

In Skydog: the Duane Allman Story—recently released in paperback—author Randy Poe has written the definitive biography of the late Allman Brother and session guitarist. Since his death, Duane and the ...

Gregory LeNoir Allman, known professionally as Gregg Allman, was an influential American musician, singer, and songwriter.