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Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦

How the Allman Brothers Band Helped Make Jimmy Carter President 🎸

The Georgia-based group provided crucial early support for his 1976 White House run, creating a bond that lasted for decades

The governor greeted Allman, “Come on in. I got some new Elmore James albums we can listen to.” As they walked inside, Mr. Carter praised Allman’s songwriting and started “rattling off the lyrics” to his songs.

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Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter talks to reporters while wearing an Allman Brothers Band T-shirt, July 1976. Wally McNamee/Getty Images
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Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦

Will have to read if just for the Allman Brothers' interview and Rolling Stone piece. Seems like a good, alternate "Almost Famous" source material.

'Splendor in the Short Grass': Romancing the Stoned

"[T]he best of the New Journalism is still bracing -- for its flair but also for its earnest presumption and for its access to what people, high and low, were actually up to."

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Cover photo of the book "Splendor in the Short Grass" featuring author Grover Lewis in sunglasses kicking back on a bench with his sunglasses on and cowboy boots hoisted on a railing in front of him
#AlmostFamous#AllmanBrothers#GroverLewis
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Black-Eyed Katydid

The Allman Brothers Band - The Road Goes on Forever (Capricorn, 1975)

Thanks to my parents-in-law for passing down 2 boxes of moldy records that I cleaned up and culled, keeping the cream of the crop, mostly classic rock and folk. ABB were a formative influence and are well represented in my digital collection, but this is my only record, a well-curated "greatest recordings" compilation.

#NowPlaying #AllmanBrothers #rock #vinyl #BEKrecords @vinylrecords

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Mike Babyak

Nice little set at the Lincoln in Raleigh last night. Was a tribute to #DickeyBetts. We did a short set of “unplugged” stuff—Little Martha, Pony Boy, and Sweet Melissa.

Minor disaster during Pony Boy. In the middle of the tune we hear this massive flanged jet engine sound roaring through the house and monitors. We all look at each other. Apparently the singer had accidentally bumped some sort of effect button. Took him about 20 seconds to figure out how to turn it off.

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Dobro on stand in front of several large guitar amps and drum kit.
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aburtch

The #AllmanBrothers recently released this 4/7/72 show recorded only months after Duane's death. So it's unique in that Dicky Betts is the sole guitarist. But it sounds great and I've never heard Berry Oakley's bass so high in the mix. You can really focus in on his playing and what made him so great.

open.spotify.com/album/05Wtpe1

SpotifyManley Field House Syracuse University, April 7, 1972Allman Brothers Band · Album · 1972 · 12 songs.
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The prompt is Idle
The Allman Brothers Band, “Idlewild South” 1970

The #AllmanBrothers' second album was reissued with their first eponymous album as the double album Beginnings after their bar-raising live album “At Fillmore East” and the popular success of “Eat a Peach.”

I know what you’re thinking: #SouthernRock, rednecks with guitars, but while they arguably launched that genre, let’s remember their jazzy, dare I say, #JamBand side, and two drummers - TWO DRUMMERS - that drove songs like pile drivers, not to mention #GreggAllman's world-worn vocals and those two lead guitars. OK, the guitar thing became a southern rock cliche, but when you have musician's musician #DuaneAllman on slide, it’s a whole different animal.

Tragedy and excess would reduce the band to a less adventurous shadow of its former self, but their first two albums are a gumbo of #BluesRock weight, instrumental finesse, southern soul, and inspiration.

youtube.com/watch?v=8SZlz9WKcc

YouTubeIn Memory Of Elizabeth ReedBy The Allman Brothers Band - Topic
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Flipboard Culture Desk

Dickey Betts, cofounder of the Allman Brothers Band, died last week. In this essay for Paste, Matt Mitchell remembers his work on "Eat a Peach" and "Brothers and Sisters." "I contend that, between February 1972 and August 1973, there was no greater rocker walking among us than Dickey Betts," Mitchell writes. "Most musicians would kill to write 'Blue Sky,' 'Jessica' and 'Ramblin’ Man' over the course of a long career; Betts did it in just 16 months’ time, a creative peak few musicians of his caliber, genre and longevity have ever paralleled."

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Paste MagazineThe Unparalleled, Two-Year Rock-Stardom of Dickey BettsThe Allman Brothers Band lead guitarist, songwriter and vocalist passed away this week, but his work on Eat a Peach and Brothers and Sisters will endure as one of the coolest creative peaks in rock ‘n’ roll history.
#Music#DickeyBetts#AllmanBrothers
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