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Dave Matthews Band stopped through Alpharetta on Tuesday where the band honored Georgia heroes the Allman Brothers Band with the group’s keyboardist Chuck Leavell. DMB also touched on Leavell’s other band, The Rolling Stones, during the extended sit-in at the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre.It was a night of classic rock favorites in Alpharetta even before Leavell joined the party, with the Dave Matthews Band […]

The sit-in in Alpharetta, Georgia featured “Melissa,” “Honky Tonk Women” and more.Dave Matthews Band tapped legendary The Allman Brothers Band/The Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell to be the latest guest to sit in with the band during their current Summer Tour 2023. Leavell joined DMB at Ameris Bank Amphitheatre near Atlanta on Tuesday night.Leavell, who lives on a tree farm […]

‘Brothers and Sisters,’ a new book from Alan Paul, explains how 50 years ago the Allman Brothers Band came back from tragedy to create the chart topping album that would make them one of the defining sounds of the ’70s.In their tumultuous 45-year career, the founding members of the Allman Brothers Band let precisely two […]

“A Night of Georgia Music,” recorded for public television at Macon, Georgia’s historic Grand Opera House in front of a sold-out live audience, is the recipient of an Emmy Award in the Arts/Entertainment–Long Form content category during the 49th annual Southeast Regional Emmy Awards ceremony held in Atlanta on June 17. The performance dynamically showcases some of […]

On this, the 50th anniversary year of The Allman Brothers’  Brothers and Sisters album, it would be hard to imagine a better journalist to cover its mad, glorious history than best-selling author Alan Paul.Paul has already displayed his vibrant writing and deep-dive research chops in One Way Out: The Inside Story of the Allman Brothers. While that earlier work was […]

Over the years, Eric Clapton and his band have taken the stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall more than 200 times.In late June, a special revisiting of an early 1990s live collection, The Definitive 24 Nights, has been re-released in remastered format. It was made available in a few formats, including an expanded Deluxe vinyl set (click here) […]