I am proud to feature “Revival” from Play All Night: Live at the Beacon Theater 1992, which will be released on February 18. Details below. Have a listen: February 18 is going to be a busy day for Peachheads. My book One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band will be launched as Sony releases a […]
The first taste of One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band can be had in the new Guitar World. To tie in with the Clapton cover theme, they excerpted the chapter on the making of Layla and how it almost destroyed the Allman Brothers Band. I also interviewed Warren Haynes about Play All […]
Gregg Allman told Relix that the Allman Brothers Band will no longer tour regularly after 2014. “This is it—this is the end of it,” he told Relix, as part of an interview for the magazine’s 40th anniversary issue. “Forty five years is enough and I want to do something else, anyway. Everyone has their own real […]
Pollution in Beijing remains very bad, but they are NOT actually showing pictures of a sunrise. That was a bogus report which I am ashamed to admit I passed along as factual, along with many others. I will be very happy when the lyrics to “Beijing Blues,” sound like a relic of a bygone time: “They say […]
“Like a master bandleader, Alan Paul orchestrates a bluesy, jazzy, rocking chorale of voices telling the tale of a brotherhood under stress and a band who got what they hardly realized they wanted, lost what they had and fought a decades-long struggle to get it back.” —Charles Shaar Murray, author of Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix & […]
It’s been speculated for a while, but Butch Trucks spilled the beans on the Jam Cruise that his nephew Derek would be leaving the Allman Brothers Band at the end of the year. As word began to circulate, Derek and Warren Haynes released both joint and personal statements about the situation. See below. Wow. End of […]