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Night Beat Post 131 - The Allman Brothers Part V: The Dark Secret at the Heart of a Blues Tale

Yesterday’s entry was where the 1990 Rolling Stone story I wrote about earlier ended, though not where the Allmans themselves ended, for better or worse.

In 2017, Allman died and the magazine asked me to write a feature obituary about him....

2 days ago

Night Beat Post 130 - The Allman Brothers Part IV: Knitted together by the bonds of dark remembrances and lost dreams

In the early 1970s, no central vision or consensus had emerged to replace Duane Allman’s sensibility as the guiding sensibility in the Allman Brothers Band. There were reports that Chuck Leavell wanted to lead the band on a more progressive...

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Night Beat Post 129 - The Allman Brothers Part III: "Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More"

By 1970, the Allman Brothers were acquiring a formidable reputation. They had recorded two critically praised LPs of blues-rock, interlaced with classical- and country-derived elements, and Duane had gained pop renown for his contributions...

4 days ago
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Night Beat Post 128 – The Allman Brothers Part II: Whipping Post - "This frightening kind of thing"

Like Phil Walden, Duane Allman had his life and sensibility transformed by sudden death. In 1949, when Duane was three and his little brother Gregory was two, the Allman family was living in Nashville, Tennessee. That Christmas, the boys’ f...

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Night Beat Post 127 – The Allman Brothers Part I: Foundations of Loss

Last week, I ran five posts on Night Beat about Bob Dylan. This week, I’m running a series about the Allman Brothers. The excerpts are largely from a 1990 article I wrote about the band for Rolling Stone—a piece that particularly matters to...

6 days ago
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