Conversation from the Crossroads of Southern music, history, & culture is an independent project of historian Dr. Bob Beatty, author of 'Play All Night! Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East.' No affiliation/endorsement with the Allman Brothers.
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Busy run at the Crossroads
It’s been particularly busy lately on the music front. The past two weeks have included a run of amazing shows in Nashville, three at 3rd and Lindsley—the Mother Hips, Jack Pearson, Reese Wynans and Friends—two epic Tedeschi Trucks Band thr...
Rolling Stone on the state of the Allman Brothers in 1975: “Gregg’s life affects the band, sure. But sometimes the band’s schedule stifles his creativity.”
[NB: Liberating another paid member only post.]
Sometime in late summer 1975, Rolling Stone sent Art Harris to Macon to cover the Allman Brothers Band’s new album—Win, Lose, or Draw—and impending tour. Harris reports a band in disarray....
The 1969 Woodstock Festival: “The hype about the peace and love, that’s not hype. That was real.”
Episode Overview
Woodstock veteran Gary Barrett (with a cameo from his wife Camille, also a Woodstocker) joins me at the Crossroads to talk about his memories of the festival.
This is part 2 of my Woodstock series. Part 1 was Tom Prag...
“Like words in the telling of a story, every note is of essential importance.” Dickey Betts on instrumentals
This post offers several levels of goodness: a video from my conversation with Lamar Williams Jr., Dickey’s thoughts on composing, and a deep dive into my second favorite ABB instrumental, “High Falls.”
Let’s start with that Dickey qu...
“I'm cold, I'm tired, I'm hungry, I must have had a great time.” Three days of peace & music in the mud at Woodstock
I spent the last weekend in August with a group of pals in Bethel, New York, site of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. Among them was Tom Pragliola, a paid member of Long Live the ABB: Conversation from the Crossroads1 and also a...
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