S/D Southern Rock

Im currently reading the new book. Jaimoe comes across as by far the most sane guy in the band.

Having since read Gregg's autobio, Ah suspect it's a low bar, but Bill's prob right.

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austex Records Unleashes “Mutants Of The Monster: A Tribute To Black Oak Arkansas”
Presented by Joecephus & The George Jonestown Massacre
Featuring Shooter Jennings, Eddie Spaghetti, Greg Ginn and more!
CDs Arrive on August 19th, Vinyl on September 19th

“Mutants Of The Monster” is the new 17 track album tribute to ’70’s arena rock legends Black Oak Arkansas. The tribute is a labor of love that began one night in Tennessee over six years ago. The album’s co-producer and Joecephus & The George Jonestown Massacre main man Joey Killingsworth and band played an opening slot for BOA. He was a huge fan of the band and was unable to get a t-shirt in the size he wanted. He was given their manager’s number and with one thing leading to another it was soon decided that Joecephus & The GJM would record a single of the BOA tune “Fever In My Mind” with Jim “Dandy” Mangrum himself singing, to be backed with a standalone version of “Hot Rod” by the band. Enter Shooter Jennings, who had been playing Joecephus and the GJM a bunch on his Sirius/XM radio show. Joey mentioned to him that they had a version of "Hot Rod" in the can and Jennings was game to add vocals. The single release never materialized, but after hearing an interview with some members of Black Flag saying how they used to listen to The Stooges and Black Oak Arkansas, and another interview with BOA guitarist Rickie Lee Reynolds saying how they had toured with bands as diverse as Black Sabbath, KISS and King Crimson, Killingsworth decided his heroes were not getting their due and had the inspiration to pursue a BOA tribute album, a feat never attempted before. After announcing that the project would be a benefit for Memphis area animal rescue The Savior Foundation, interest grew and an impressive roster of guest stars joined the cause.

Stream "Mutants of the Monster" here: https://soundcloud.com/saustex/sets/mutants-of-the-monster-a

The album is co-produced by studio owner and drummer Dik LeDoux. Joey credits him with getting the best performances out of the various musicians who appear on the record as well as keeping project rolling by providing demos to potential guest players. Killingsworth (aka Joecephus) and his band The George Jonestown Massacre (in various configurations) provide the backing on all tracks except “Rock’N’Roll” which is anchored by Nine Pound Hammer and “Keep The Faith” - a bonus track donated to the project by Nashville P*ssy offshoot The Kentucky Bridgeburners.

But as they say, the proof is in the pudding and the results in this case are most tasty. LeDoux and Killingsworth’s genuine love for the band’s material really shines through in the arrangements and treatments of the songs, which were tailored for the guest vocalists and instrumentalists. There is a heavy and grooveful thread that runs throughout, breathing new life into and updating the classic Black Oak favorites.

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Although Black Oak Arkansas is still a going concern anchored by Mangrum and original BOA guitarist Rickie Lee Reynolds (with a recent album for Atlantic Records), modern recognition of the band is limited to their being lumped in with period southern rocks acts such as Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Marshall Tucker Band. While other acts had a lot more chart success and radio play, they were unmatched as a live act in their heyday (though BOA have one platinum and three gold albums to their credit, and, hold the distinction of being one of only five acts ever personally signed to Atlantic Records by founder and music business hyper-legend Ahmet Ertegun). The band was a top-grossing act, relentlessly touring the arena circuit as a headliner throughout the mid-seventies, performing in front of millions of fans. Jim Dandy’s wild-eyed, backwoods Romeo stage antics, combined with the band’s classic three guitar attack (and the later addition of Ruby Starr to the live show) was not only visually compelling but also just plain fun; in an era that became typified by increasingly stultified performances. Perhaps the greatest testament to the pervasiveness of the band was Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth’s whole-hog co-optation of Mangrum’s look and stage moves… Axl Rose might owe some of his vocal stylings to Jim Dandy as well (witness “Fever In My Mind”).

“Mutants Of The Monster” captures the essence of BOA’s fun spirit and showcases the sturdiness of the material and will hopefully serve as a breeding ground for a new generation of Black Oak fans. With any luck, the album will raise the profile of Black Oak Arkansas, among not only contemporary fans of Classic Rock and Outlaw Country, but critics as well.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Hey Y'all 4:10 
feat. Blaine Cartwright and Ruyter Suys

2. Uncle Lijiah 4:19 
feat. Jimbo Mathus and Robby Turner

3. Hot Rod 2:54 
feat. Shooter Jennings

4. Swimmin' in Quicksand 3:18
 feat. JD Pinkus and Nik Turner

5. Hot and Nasty 2:43 
feat. Eddie Spaghetti

6. When Electricity Came to Arkansas 5:46 feat. Jeff Clayton, Greg Ginn and Rickie Lee Reynolds

7. Short Life Line 3:43 feat. Bill Davis

8. Fever in My Mind 2:14
 feat. Jim “Dandy” Mangrum

9. High 'N' Dry 2:49 
feat. Whiskeydick

10. Lord Have Mercy on My Soul 4:15 feat. Jeff Clayton and Paul Leary

11. Mutants of the Monster 7:03 
feat. CT and Micheal Denner

12. Mad Man 3:39

13. Strong Enough to Be Gentle 4:47 feat. Ruyter Suys and Jimmy Henderson
14. Jim Dandy 2:33 
feat. Jello Biafra and Ruyter Suys

15. Rock 'N' Roll 3:42
 Nine Pound Hammer feat. Joecephus
16. The Wild Bunch 4:49 
feat. Kyle Turley and Mickey Raphael
17. Keep the Faith 3:00 
The Kentucky Bridgeburners

FEATURED ARTISTS: 

Blaine Cartwright and Ruyter Suys (Nashville P*ssy)
Jimbo Mathus (Squirrel Nut Zippers)

Robby Turner (Sturgill Simpson)

Shooter Jennings
JD Pinkus (Honky, Butthole Surfers)

Nik Turner (Hawkwind)

Eddie Spaghetti (Supersuckers)
Brian Venable (Lucero)

Jeff Clayton (Anitseen)

Greg Ginn (Black Flag)
Rickie Lee Reynolds (BOA)
Bill Davis (Dash Rip Rock)
Jim "Dandy" Mangrum (BOA)
Whiskeydick
Paul Leary (Butthole Surfers)

CT (Rwake)

Michael Denner (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond)
Jimmy Henderson (BOA)

Jello Biafra

Nine Pound Hammer

Kyle Turley

Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson Band)

The Kentucky Bridgeburners

For more information visit www.saustex.com

Pne more time---Go Jim Dandy!

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I like Randall Bramblett's records--all of them--a lot, especially this song from his first album, back in 1975. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXeVHBRxwnQ

Black Oak Arkansas' Original Albums Classics collection is a good one to pick up. I've said it on other similar threads, but they are by far the most hippy strange of the classic southern rock groups. The vintager live clips of them at the California Jam are really great too.

Blackfoot is another Original Albums Classic to pick up. They got popular a bit later than the other bands. Their live record cut in the UK is really good. It of course might be doctored, but the crowd is sounding like they are going batshit to them. Kinda wild considering it was cut in '82 during the NWBHM times. Got to wonder if they ever shared the stage with Motorhead in those days...would have been a heck of a show if it happened.

Any Southern rock bands with female vocalists who are worth checking out?

Dale Krantz was strong w Rossington-Collins Band---better live, but I've got both albums on an ancient CD, and they have some good tracks. Krantz later married Rossington and became a backup singer for the early semi-revived Skynyrd, dunno if she's stil with 'em. (Speaking of Blackfoot, Rickey Medlocke, whom Van Zant talked into being Skynyrd's pre-Artemus drummer, came back as singer-guitarist for the Skynyrd revival, don't know if he's still there either
The only other band with a female lead singer I can think of is Grey Ghost, fronted by Ruby Red. Saw her duet w Jim Dandy somewhere once, but don't remember how that was or what Grey Ghost sounded like.
Yeah, Randall Bramblett! Played sax with Cowboy, right? Aand still puts out good albums, singing and songwriting and playing sax, guitar, keys, kind of a backroads, backstreets Steely Dan sometimes.

Blackfoot came along when new wave was becoming the hot trend, used to hear their cover of Spirit's "I Put A Line On You" on college radio around '79, '80, don't know how that first(?) album was, but '83's City Slicker was pretty decent.

Mother's Finest was from Atlanta and had a female lead singer but their sound was more funk/soul hard rock than 'southern rock' in the Capricorn records/Skynyrd way. Like the Isley Brothers it's not hard to hear Mother's Finest as a 70s rock/funk version of the 60s soul sound.

Yeah they funk-rocked and Baby Jean Kennedy sure did sing lead, but also yeah not Southern Rock in the bandwagonesque sense.

These guys certainly were bandwagon, and could be satisfying that way when guitar urges pushed around the country-rock harmonies etc;current line-up seems like non-nonentities, especially Chris Anderson, and this album might be worth checking out, if live really is still the Outlaws thing:

For The Outlaws, it´s always about the music. Especially live music! For more than 40 years, the southern rock legend has celebrated triumphs, endured tragedies and survived legal nightmares to remain one of the most influential and best-loved bands of the genre. It's a band of brothers bound together by history, harmony and the road. It's about a group that respects its own legacy while refusing to be defined by its past. But most of all, it's about playing live, playing for their audience. The sextet proves just how well this combination works with Legacy Live, its brand-new double live CD, scheduled for release on November 18th via Steamhammer/SPV.

"I want people to hear this album and see our show and realize that The Outlaws are still there," says founding member and front man Henry Paul. "Our goal is to unite the fans and bring the group back into the limelight." Legacy Live consists of two CDs, full to the brim with classics such a ´There Goes Another Love Song`, ´(Ghost) Riders In The Sky`, ´Green Grass & High Tides Forever` and ´Freeborn Man` as well as more recent material like ´It´s About Pride`, ´Hidin` Out In Tennessee` and ´So Long`. A total of 20 songs, every one of which proves: the gritty southern rock by The Outlaws mark 2016 is as intense and passionate as it's always been.

nd what is more: On stage, the band burns hotter than ever. "The Outlaws helped define Southern Rock for me and for generations of fans," wrote American music journalist Bill Robinson in June 2012 in The Huffington Post. "Seeing them onstage with The Charlie Daniels Band, Marshall Tucker Band, Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd or countless others was, for a long time, one of the best experiences I could have." The Outlaws' live shows are blazing tributes to the band's rich history and fiery rebirth. Classic tracks and fan favorites from the first three albums - as well as The Henry Paul Band's definitive "Grey Ghost" - share the spotlight with songs from the newer discs. "I think the fans are coming away from shows feeling a part of the Outlaws experience."

Along with founding members Henry Paul and Monte Yoho, the band features several of Southern Rock's most respected veterans: Co-lead guitarist and longtime Outlaw Chris Anderson is well known for his collaborations with artists that include Dickey Betts, Lucinda Williams, Hank Williams Jr., and Skynyrd. Steve Grisham is a former member of the Soldier Of Fortune era Outlaws, a noted songwriter whose tracks include The Henry Paul Band top 40 hit "Keeping Our Love Alive" and a co-founder of the Southern Rock all-stars Brothers Of The Southland. Keyboardist/vocalist Dave Robbins is a co-founding member of Blackhawk and has written hit songs for artists that include Restless Heart, Kenny Rogers and Eric Clapton. Bassist/vocalist Randy Threet has performed with Pam Tillis, Trisha Yearwood and Blackhawk, and is familiar to TV audiences from USA Network's 'Nashville Star'. "From the very beginning, our band had a heart," Monte Yoho says, "for The Outlaws, it's still about the music. And more than ever, it's about live music!"

"Legacy Live" will be released November 11th (USA/Canada November 18th) as a 2CD digipak and download.

Tracklisting:

CD 1
1. Intro
2. There Goes Another Love Song
3. Hurry Sundown
4. Hidin' Out In Tennessee
5. Freeborn Man
6. Born To Be Bad
7. Song In The Breeze
8. Girl From Ohio
9. Holiday
10. Gunsmoke
11. Grey Ghost

CD 2
1. South Carolina
2. So Long
3. Prisoner
4. Cold Harbor
5. Trail Of Tears
6. It's About Pride
7. Waterhole
8. Knoxville Girl
9. Green Grass & High Tides Forever
10. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky

O yeah, and speaking one more time of Jim Dandy---this is from what seems to be one of the very first Consumer Guides ever, archived on xgau's site:
The Knowbody Else [Hip, 1969]
A classic white Southern rock band. Despite the terrible group name and the terrible label name (Stax subsidiary) and the terrible cover art, they really make it. Lead singer James Mangrum is a cross between Dr. John and Captain Beefheart, the arrangements are spare and evocative, the songs simple but never banal. Very nice. B As always, gotta be about the descriptions, not the "grades"--anybody heard this album??

I've heard it before - didn't sound as inspired as the early BOA stuff. If you've heard "Early Times" I think that's more or less leftovers from the Knowbody Else stuff...

Downloading that Outlaws promo now. Never listened to them before. Kinda hope they're more Molly Hatchet than Marshall Tucker...

I mostly saw them at festivals: seemed like they wanted to be tasteful like Tucker, and they did have some harmonious hits, at least in the South, but the guitar boogie machine monster held forth in the arenas etc.

By "machine monster", I mean something like a big ol' toy, but a loud, cross-country vehicle too.

Most of The Outlaws records are more harmony led country rock. Green Grass and High Tides is kind of an outlier.

Think I mentioned Skydog, the monster Duane Allman box, when it came out on CD a few years ago---back now on ltd. ed. vinyl, and sounding better than ever, according to this extensive review:
http://nodepression.com/album-review/duane-allmans-box-sky?mc_cid=3b0fe21fbf&mc_eid=b850f832a1

Well dang--- ahole tendencies at least, judging by his autobio and other accounts---incl. of his earlier drunk-driving adventures-----and it was already the end of an era, ABB-wise, but still:
http://www.tmz.com/2017/05/27/gregg-allman-dies/

Bruce Hampton's sudden death onstage at the climax of his 70th birthday megajam was more upsetting, and don't know that we've ever discussed him here---good thread:
Music to Eat (Hampton Grease Band): C/D

aw man. RIP Gregg Allman :(

Southern Blood sounds a lot better than I expected, after being disgusted with his moaning and groaning almost (except for the blessed "Instrumental Illness") all over ABB's last studio album, Hittin' The Note(2009). But now I'm thinking I should try again, and haven't heard his 2011 set Low Country Blues atall. So far, some of the tracks on here may lose momentum, but since he only lived to hear four finished, it was producer Don Was's responsibility to tighten up the set. But I've only listened a couple times, and there's some choice cuts on here for sure (must check that Johnny Jenkins album he gets one of these from)
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/547045228/first-listen-gregg-allman-southern-blood

Digging the instrumentation here too, especially *these* horns with *this* steel guitar (and the rhythm section).

Scott Boyer of Cowboy (and more recently the Decoys) has died---bio and comments from Isbell, Hood etc here:
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/02/shoals_musician_songwriter_sco.html#incart_river_index

Live, Cowboy could be several things, incl. in there between Traffic and Little Feat---unlike their best known track, "Please Be With Me" w Duane Allman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY6SlJIk-7Q

RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4gwTgN9Qjk

Thanks, hadn't heard that! This 'un is like something unaccountably left off Buffalo Springfield's Last Time Around, but also holds its own---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsx0_GUJEBc

---from Cowboy - Boyer & Talton (Capricorn 1974) Scott Boyer & Tommy Talton With Chuck Leavell, Jaimoe, Randall Bramblett, Charley Hayward, Johnny Sandlin

if that doesn't show up here, it's "Everyone Has A Chance To Feel."

Live, Cowboy eventually could sound kind of in there between Traffic, Little Feat, little bit of early 70s Van Morrison---like Talton, Stewart & Sandlin kinda do here in the studio, on "Happy To Be Alive":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBhCQy2yvdw

one album that I know of:
T.Talton, B.Stewart, J.Sandlin - Happy To Be Alive (CAPRICORN 1976) Johnny Sandlin - Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar Ed Freeman - Strings, Strings Arrangements, Conductor Bill Stewart - Rhythm Guitar, Drums, Percussion Bill Stewart - Drums Tommy Talton - Guitar, Vocals Guest Musicians:Bonnie Bramlett, Chuck Leavell, Dru Lombar, Joe English, Joe Walk, Scott Boyer, Steve Miller

Really trying for that 70s radio play, duh, and deservedly so.

A couple of Cowboy albums I didn't know about, the s/t and an expanded Cowboy: Boyer & Talton, were recently reissued, haven't heard 'em yet---also, here's Tommy Talton talking about the last show with Gregg, in 2016, and a good conversation they had, along with author's mentions of the Gregg albums T played on, ditto ABB LPs (bottom of this page has a link to review of Talton's latest solo alb):
http://nodepression.com/article/tommy-talton-recalls-last-gig-gregg-allman-and-lesson-band?mc_cid=bba6edc188&mc_eid=b850f832a1

Finally got to it--said this just now on Twitter:
Cowboy, Boyer & Talton (Expanded Edition): "It's a long short highway," amen. Bramblett, Leavell, Jaimoe, Sandlin, Hornsby, Bill Stewart, David Brown, Toy Caldwell, Dru Lombar, Charlie Hayward, Giggling Heap, Willietes, 2 bonus workouts from The Gregg Allman Tour. Earned stereo.

Anybody heard the 31rst of February album, the trio's 1968 s/t? Long ago heard the demo released in '72 as Duane & Greg Allman, backed by the trio, mainly remember Greg/Gregg bellerin' "Morning Dew."

Blackfoot rawks some serious mullet. "Good Morning" that opens up their 'Marauder' lp kinda has a groove that splits the difference between thrash and the Walbash Cannonball.

Rickey Medlocke rules!

Never heard a whole Blackfoot album, but they had a decent cover of Spirit's "I Got A Line On You" in the late 70s, kind of a weird time for Southern Rock (post-Skynyrd-plane-crash, for one thing). He was mainly known as a guitarist early on, I think, but Van Zant talked him into drumming for Skyn---last I heard, he was still with the current line-up, singing and guitaring.
Just got this from Big Hassle publicists:

Gregg Allman
Laid Back Deluxe Edition and Gregg Allman Tour - August 30
Allman’s masterful debut solo album, Laid Back, will be remastered and released as an expanded two-disc deluxe edition and reissue on 180-gram vinyl. The deluxe edition features more than two dozen rarities including unreleased demos, outtakes, alternative and new mixes xpost best Cowboy line-up backing him on the Tour LP. hope there's more involving them on this.

Outlaws, live "High Tide & Green Grass": nuthin fancy like Allmans or LS, just gettin the job done in '78, as Southern Rock bandwagon headed downhill and some were alreaddy gone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=hIaS_vYIQ_A&feature=emb_logo

last misspelling unintentional

From my Nashville Scene ballot comments re 2020:

Randall Bramblett fortified the strongest xpost Cowboy line-up I know of---on several of their own albums and The Gregg Allman Tour :all reissued, sometimes expanded, in recent years---and he’s been a good solo artist since the 70s. The all-new Pine Needle Fire succinctly suggests tight early Steely Dan with a Southern accent---but the nimble multi-instrumentalist and session leader is just sitting and thinking and singing behind his piano, through many, many a sad, sometimes beautiful post-break-up ballad all throughout the 10th Anniversary Edition of In The Meantime, which may also be expanded---too much of a good thing, or maybe I’m just too much of a bad thing to keep my mind from wandering---some keepers though, for sure. Lots more albums besides these on his bandcamp.

THE ALLMAN FAMILY REVIVAL PRESENTED BY GIBSON
ADDS ADDITIONAL ARTISTS IN SELECT MARKETS:
GEORGE PORTER, KARL DENSON, MARC FORD, IVAN NEVILLE, ART EDMAISTON, BETH HART, J.D. SIMO, JESSICA LYNN, ALLY VENABLE

NEW YEAR'S EVE PERFORMANCE ADDED
W/ CODY DICKINSON, LUTHER DICKINSON, JIMMY HALL, ROBERT RANDOLPH, SAMANTHA FISH

The fifth annual Allman Family Revival Presented by Gibson has added a 19th date to the previously announced tour and will ring in the New Year in Macon, Georgia at the Macon City Auditorium. Additionally, several new artists have been added to select markets including George Porter, Karl Denson, Marc Ford, Ivan Neville, Art Edmaiston, Beth Hart, J.D. Simo, Jessica Lynn, and Ally Venable who will join the previously announced touring lineup featuring The Allman Betts Band, Robert Randolph, Donavon Frankenreiter, Lilly Hiatt, Cody and Luther Dickinson, Eric Gales, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Jimmy Hall, Lamar Williams Jr. The Allman Family Revival will also feature Kenny Wayne Shepherd, G. Love, Samantha Fish, Alex Orbison, and Kenny Aronoff in select markets. VIP packages will be available to purchase Friday, October 22 at allmanfamilyrevival.com.

The Allman Family Revival is a celebration of the life, spirit, and music of Gregg Allman, hosted by his son, Blues Music Award-winning Devon Allman, and anchored by his group, The Allman Betts Band.

On what would have been Gregg Allman’s 70th Birthday (December 8, 2017), Devon decided to gather his talented friends to pay homage musically. Musicians that had toured with Gregg, jammed with Gregg & inspired by Gregg turned up to throw down. Legends like Robin Zander of Cheap Trick, wunderkind Marcus King, and the Orbison’s, all took part in the inaugural performance, laying the groundwork for The Allman Family Revival to be an annual who’s who of musical talent.

Now…It’s a yearly tradition, and it’s grown from an annual celebration in San Fransisco to a full fledged coast to coast tour. Based on the format of “The Last Waltz” concert with The Allman Betts Band as the house band and featuring up to a dozen marquee names in music, it’s an epic 3 hour show unlike any other.
“Hard to believe we are in the fifth year of The Allman Family Revival shows! Says Devon, “This year is going to be bonkers! 19 cities, coast to coast in historic theaters with our beautiful, talented friends jamming all night long. Can’t wait!”

Macon, GA New Year's Eve tickets go on sale Friday, October 22, all other tickets on sale now. For tickets and all up to date information, visit allmanfamilyrevival.com.
2021 Allman Family Revival
11/27 @ The Factory | St. Louis, MO
11/29 @ Majestic Theater | Dallas, TX
11/30 @ ACL Live at The Moody Theater | Austin, TX
12/1 @ Saenger Theater | New Orleans, LA
12/2 @ Coca-Cola Roxy | Atlanta, GA
12/3 @ Van Wezel PAC | Sarasota, FL
12/5 @ The Paramount | Huntington, NY
12/7 @ Orpheum Theater | Boston, MA
12/8 @ Beacon Theater | New York, NY
12/9 @ The Met | Philadelphia, PA
12/10 @ Fillmore | Silver Springs, MD
12/11 @ Michigan Theater | Ann Arbor, MI
12/12 @ Chicago Theater | Chicago, IL
12/14 @ Brady Theater | Tulsa, OK
12/16 @ Arizona Federal Theatre | Phoenix, AZ
12/17 @ Theater at Virgin Hotels | Las Vegas, NV
12/18 @ The Fillmore | San Francisco, CA
12/19 @ The Wiltern | Los Angeles, CA
12/31 @ Macon City Auditorium | Macon, GA
allmanfamilyrevival.com

About The Allman Family Revival:
On December 8, 2017, Devon Allman invited a couple dozen of his closest musical compadres onto the hallowed stage of The Fillmore to perform a three-hour, multi-set monster of a concert for the sold-out crowd that filled the historic San Francisco venue in tribute to Allman’s late father, Gregg. The date was bittersweet; what would’ve been Gregg’s 70th birthday. For Allman, in a year when the award-winning musician lost both parents within a few months of each other, what started as a simple idea of music as medicine had given birth to The Allman Family Revival: a happy and healing cosmic experience celebrating the life, spirit, and indelible musical legacy of Gregg Allman.

The format for this ambitious undertaking, Allman says, was inspired by one of rock’s most famous concerts (and film). “I had recently re-fallen in love with The Band’s The Last Waltz and thought that would be perfect: let our band come out and serve as the appetizer; then one-by-one welcome our special guests; have them do a song they are known for and also do an Allman-centric song.”

Year one, the newly-formed Devon Allman Project with Duane Betts indeed welcomed a slew of heavyweights to the tribute: G. Love; Robert Randolph; Luther and Cody Dickinson; Alex Orbison; and Samantha Fish, to name a few. In 2018, Allman and Betts installed The Allman Betts Band as the Revival’s house band, adding wunderkind Marcus King to the already-impressive guest list for another sold-out affair at The Fillmore. By 2019, Allman extended the scope of the now-annual event, and the invites (including Cheap Trick’s legendary singer, Robin Zander), slating Allman Family Revival shows in San Francisco, Denver’s Mission Ballroom, and New York City’s Beacon Theatre. In 2020, the global pandemic forced Allman to pivot to a February 2021 date, adapting the Revival to a single, socially-distanced performance at Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium and included Jimmy Hall (Wet Willie) and JD Simo among the now-familiar faces of Allman’s ever-expanding musical family.

“I like having artists that knew Dad, played with him, maybe were an opening act, or were really influenced and inspired by him,” Allman says. “As for a venue, I prefer those turn-of-the-century to mid-20th century, old-school theatres. They are just gorgeous inside, sculpted for sound, and provide the perfect location for these very special shows. I love for this concert to feel like a night at the theatre for our audience.”

Once envisioned as a single celebration in San Francisco, the Allman Family Revival, in its fifth year, has evolved into a full-fledged, coast-to-coast tour. As curator, host, and performer, Allman remains true to the painstaking mission of providing an epic event worthy of its inspiration. “I want to make sure there’s some ‘sonic ginger,’ to cleanse the palette amidst all those guitars,” Allman says with a smile. “I really enjoy working with the guests individually on setlists to make each show a very special night. It’s a daunting task, for sure, but a labor of love every time.”
Among the marquee names scheduled for 2021’s Revival are Robert Randolph, Eric Gales, Jimmy Hall, Donavon Frankenreiter, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Cody and Luther Dickinson, Lilly Hiatt, and Lamar Williams Jr., plus, of course, more surprises to come.

“My favorite part is just the joy of the audience. I can tell they are touched and getting every penny’s worth,” Allman says. “Knowing Dad is looking down saying, ‘Damn, son, all that hot jammin’ for me?!’ I know he’s tickled that we celebrate him. Because none of us has to do this. We all have busy careers. This is a ‘want to’ situation; absolutely, 100% about music and celebration and tribute.”
Press Contact:

ginsberg at bighassle.com

Sorry, should have condensed that, but there's the info.

Should have been the thread title:

I Hope Neil Young Will Remember: Southern Rock C/D

Southern Rock ov Today, Y'all:
North Mississippi Allstars will release Set Sail on January 28th via New West Records. The 10-song set was produced by Luther and Cody Dickinson and follows their Grammy Award Nominated 2019 album Up and Rolling, which was met with wide critical acclaim. Set Sail
features appearances by Stax Records legend William Bell on the album standout “Never Want To Be Kissed” (which Bell also co-wrote and co-produced).
...Over the years, the lineup has shifted by design, and with Set Sail, they mined the talents of Jesse Williams on bass and Lamar Williams, Jr., the son of Allman Brothers bassist Lamar Williams, Sr, on vocals. During the Allman Betts Band Family Revival, the Dickinsons first linked up with Lamar, becoming fast friends and collaborators, paving the way for Set Sail.
...(Luther)continues, “Each generation has to reinvent itself and shed the skin of the elders. On Set Sail, we feel as if we’ve once again ‘broken the code,’ and know what we want and how to get it.”
...Set Sail continues the band’s tradition of creating roots music that displays remarkable variety. The record sizzles with hard yet understated groove, grown folk music. Luther’s wide-ranging guitar style features jazz riffs, psychedelic sounds, and soulful slide. Drummer and multi-instrumentalist Cody draws on roots music, rock, jazz, rap, and other styles to create rhythms that propel the band’s sounds and move it forward. Their two aesthetics combine to create the band’s unique style, “Primitive Modernism,” melding the new and the old. Luther notes, “We leaned into our other greatest influences: folk, soul, and psychedelic rock, but everything we play feels like North Mississippi.”
For more see sites of New West Records and Relix Magazine.

Derek Trucks says new TTB album is based on all of the Persian classic Layla, not just EC's why you gotta do me so bad? take. Each leg of current tour will feature new songs, but not all of the album, not 'til release.
https://www.al.com/life/2022/06/moonrise-tedeschi-trucks-band-bringing-epic-new-music-to-alabama.html

Speak of the devil---new single (about Kofi), vids, other links, other news:
https://mailchi.mp/derekandsusan/today-pre-sales-for-nashville-dc-nola-and-chicago-runs-170760?e=5fe34c369e (Incl. 4-LP Dee-luxe ltd. ed. of aforementioned new alb, I Am The Moon.)

On April 7, 1972, the Alllman Brothers Band performed at Manley Field House on the Syracuse University campus. More than half a century later, a recording of the concert is finally being released as a live album.

The Allman Brothers Band announced “Manley Field House, Syracuse University” will be released Jan. 12, 2024, on CD and digital. The tracklist features 11 songs, including hits “Midnight Rider” and “Whipping Post” alongside a previously unreleased track called “Syracuse Jam.”

“Syracuse Jam” is described as an example of the one-time melody jamming the band was famous for and is unique in that it does not appear in any other known ABB recording.

“This night saw Gregg singing and playing his heart out, while Dickey Betts is doing phenomenal double duty on guitar, switching seamlessly between the necessary slide parts and his own soaring leads,” Jeff Chard, SU concert coordinator in 1971-72, writes in the album’s liner notes. “But the real revelation of the night is that Berry is the glue, and the second lead player as well. His thunderous bass holds the quintet together – you’ll hear it, and we could see it that night. Then there is the way Butch Trucks and Jaimoe lock in on the drums, the way the whole unit responds, five playing as one.“

dickey put in an appearance the other day.
https://jambands.com/news/2023/12/14/the-allman-betts-family-revival-celebrate-dickey-betts-80th-birthday-in-sarasota/