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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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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."

nytimes.com/2005/04/03/books/r

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.

@vinylrecords

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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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.

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.

DICKIE BETTS, 80
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Sorry to learn of the death, evidently today, of Dickie Betts, who is probably best remembered for his work with the Allman Brothers Band. His death was reported this afternoon by CBS Radio News.

Betts has a track that features in a music project coming up for me. It is "Waiting for a Train" from the various artists collection, "Songs of Jimmie Rodgers. It is not just really good. Betts sounds eerily similar to Rodgers on it and the track features pretty authentic accompaniment.

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