Gregg Allman

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July 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Mavis Staples – I’ll Take You There: An All-Star Concert Celebration

Various Artists: Mavis Staples – I’ll Take You There: An All-Star Concert Celebration Blackbird Production Partners LLC A Mavis Staples concert is a joyous experience – a celebration, she’s there at church and she, erm, takes you there…so on this tribute we have to wait for the last half hour for Mavis; still regal and […]

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May 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Gregg Allman

Very sad news to wake up to…Gregg Allman has died. He was 69. In recent years he had not been well, Hepatitis C and a late-in-life liver transplant, cancelled gigs…he knew his time was coming. He was one of the great rock/blues vocalists – bringing a depth of soul to the southern boogie and jam-band […]

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January 31, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 755

The Allman Brothers Band, At Fillmore East (1971) I chased the sound of this record for a while – a brief clip of Duane Allman doing his thing on a History of Rock’n’Roll-type doco had me keen to find that particular song. It took a while (pre-internet) as it only showed a vital few seconds […]

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August 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Best Guitarist in The World: # 7 – Duane Allman

When I was about 14 – and at the peak of my guitar-loving “discovery” years, a devotee of Guitar Player magazine, as open to (and obsessed with) Sonic Youth and The Velvet Underground as Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson – I remember watching a History of Rock doc which had a featurette around rock’n’roll guitar […]