“I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it… I will seek knowledge from those wiser, and teach those who wish to learn from me.” – Duane “SKYDOG” Allman, The Allman BrothersRead more
“I’ve still got two strong legs, and even wings to fly” – The Allman Brothers, Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More, 1972Read more
“And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus rollin’ down highway 41” – Gregg Allman, The Allman Brothers, Ramblin’ Man (1973)Read more
“It was the Allman Brothers that helped put me in the White House, by raising money when I didn’t have any money.” – Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United StatesRead more
“If you’ll notice, there’s Muddy Waters songs all through the Allman Brothers records. My brother would play that stuff on acoustic for hours.” – Gregg AllmanRead more
American rock band The Allman Brothers continued to make music for a stunning 45 & over 2,500 concerts, performing their final show on October 28, 2014 at the Beacon Theatre , NYC.Read more
Both Allman Brothers Band members Duane Allman and Berry Oakley died in separate Motorcycle accidents almost exactly one year apart; both were 24 years old, the accidents were just three blocks from each other.Read more
Drummer Buddy Miles covered The Allman Brothers’ “Midnight Rider” on his 1971 album “A Message to the People”.Read more
The Allman Brothers’ Duane Allman died from a motorcycle crash on October 29, 1971, at the age of 24. The Brothers’ bassist Berry Oakley died in a similar motorcycle accident barely over one year after — and only two blocks from the site of Duane’s accident.Read more
Guitarist Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody formed Gov’t Mule in 1996 as a side project, when the two were not touring with The Allman Brothers.Read more
The Allman Brothers’ quintessential album “Eat A Peach” is “Dedicated to a brother” — Duane Allman, who died in a motorcycle accident while the album was still being recorded.Read more
The band Gov’t Mule got its name from the suggestion of The Allman Brothers Band’s drummer Jaimoe Johanson.Read more
Gregg Allman of The Allman Brothers was drafted into the Vietnam war, so he threw a “Foot Shootin’ Party” with his brother Duane, and shot himself in the foot to get out of it.Read more
The Allman Brothers’ album Brothers and Sisters” featured Butch Trucks’ son Vaylor Trucks on the cover, and the back features Berry Oakley’s daughter Brittany Oakley.Read more
Taj Mahal famously covered Blind Willie McTell’s “Statesboro Blues”, and The Allman Brothers famously covered Taj’s version three years later.Read more
The Allman Brothers Band’s “Statesboro Blues” is a Blind Willie McTell cover. Statesboro is down the road from Macon, where the band lived.Read more
Pre-Allman Brothers Band, Duane Allman was the session guitarist at Muscle Shoals’ FAME Studios.Read more
