On July 25, 2023, the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, Ga., witnessed a night to remember as the Dave Matthews Band delivered a memorable performance enriched by the musical brilliance of special guest Chuck Leavell. The former Allman Brothers keyboardist and longtime Rolling Stones sideman graced the stage in his home state for three songs […]
It’s a scorching afternoon in July and Alan Paul is in a barn, of sorts, in Pittsburgh, listening to Macon music legend Chuck Leavell rehearse when I call him to talk about the Allman Brothers Band.Paul has written a book about the band. He’s actually written two, and the most recent one, Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers […]
On Nov. 2, 1972, the Allman Brothers Band made their live debut with a new lineup. Duane Allman, the band’s transcendent guitarist and leader, had died a year earlier in a motorcycle accident. His place, as if anyone could fill it, was taken by 20-year-old wunderkind Chuck Leavell, one of rock’s greatest pianists. The group was locked in.Playing as […]
The Allman Brothers Band in this 1973 promotional photograph are, from left, Jaimoe, Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Chuck Leavell, Lamar Williams, and Dickey Betts, credited as Richard Betts at the time. Alan Paul write about this era of the Allman Brothers Band in his new book “Brothers and Sisters” out July 25, 2023. Read the story.Big […]
“Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the ’70s” (352 pp., St. Martin’s Press, $32), a new book that will be released on July 25 by Maplewood resident Alan Paul, is more about the story than the album. Like Warren Zanes’ recent “Deliver Me from Nowhere: […]
The band’s history comes to vivid life in the much-anticipated follow-up to author Alan Paul’s ‘New York Times’ bestseller, ‘One Way Out: The Inside Story of the Allman Brothers Band’When Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident on October 29, 1971, it seemed as if the Allman Brothers Band were history. In fact, their greatest […]