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Gregory Lenoir Allman (born December 8, 1947 in Nashville, Tennessee ), known as Gregg Allman (sometimes spelled Greg Allman), is a rock and blues singer , keyboardist , guitarist and songwriter , best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band . He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, and personally received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2006. His distinctive Southern-accented voice placed him in 70th place in Rolling Stone Magazine s list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time".[1]

Early years

Raised in Daytona Beach, Florida , attended Seabreeze High School along with his older brother Duane , Gregg took an interest in the guitar before Duane did. But while Duane would soon become the superior guitarist, Gregg focused more on vocals, while advancing to keyboards . Little Milton was one of his favorite singers.

Allman Joys and Hour Glass

In the mid- to late-1960s, the Allmans played in a series of bands including The Escorts and Allman Joys, mostly playing around the Southeastern United States . Toward the end of the decade, The Allman Joys relocated to Los Angeles, California , and were signed to Liberty Records , which renamed them The Hour Glass . Strongly controlled by the label, the group produced a pair of psychedelic blues albums. All the players were deeply dissatisfied with the results; Duane Allman in particular spoke bitterly of the Hour Glass' output. The label however, was impressed with Gregg Allman's vocal abilities and abilities as a keyboardist.

Formation of The Allman Brothers Band

After its second album, The Hour Glass broke up and Duane Allman returned to the South, playing sessions at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama . Duane Allman was assembling the group that would become The Allman Brothers Band - Duane and Dickey Betts on guitars , Berry Oakley on bass guitar , and Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson on drums. Liberty Records still believed that Gregg Allman had more potential as a solo act, and allowed the rest of The Hour Glass to leave on condition that Allman stay in California to record for them. He quickly grew miserable with this arrangement, and when Duane called from Jacksonville, Florida in March 1969 to say that he had assembled a band that needed a singer, Gregg jumped at the opportunity. He had long wanted to play the Hammond Organ , and was given one immediately upon joining the band, which he had to learn to play in a hurry. He has played the Hammond B-3 and handled much of the lead vocal and songwriting duties for the band (when it has been together), along with occasional piano and guitar contributions, ever since.

Solo career

After the death of Duane Allman in 1971, Gregg Allman started out on a solo career. His first album, Laid Back, was released in 1973 to a positive critical reception.

It included a couple of reworked Allman Brothers songs, such as a horn-laden, swampy version of "Midnight Rider " (one of the band's most famous songs) that made it to #19 on the Billboard singles chart, and originals like "Queen of Hearts", which Allman and the band felt did not quite fit the Allman Brothers sound. There are also a few cover songs on the record, such as the traditional gospel number "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" and an acclaimed take on former California roommate Jackson Browne 's song "These Days ."

Allman in 2006 Photo: Andrea Klein

Allman's solo career has continued intermittently throughout the subsequent decades, sometimes touring when the Allman Brothers Band is off the road. Generally, these solo efforts - first with the Gregg Allman Band , and later with Gregg Allman & Friends - eschew lengthy guitar solos and cast Allman more in the mode of his favorite soul singers. The bands often include a horn section and are more groove-oriented. The template of mixing originals with reworked Allman Brothers songs and covers of blues, R&B , and soul songs remains in place.

Allman's biggest hit single came in 1987 with "I'm No Angel ", from the album of the same name. The album went on to be certified Gold for 500,000 copies sold and led to a renewed interest in Allman and to a reformation of the Allman Brothers Band less than three years later.

Allman has also made guest appearances on albums and concert videos by a wide variety of other artists, including a concert DVD celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Radiators , playing Midnight Rider with that band.

As an actor, Allman had roles in the films Rush Week (1989) and Rush (1991), as well as in a couple of episodes of the TV series Superboy . He also had a brief speaking cameo in the Family Guy episode "Let's Go to the Hop ".

When Allman was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame on September 16, 2006, he was introduced by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and performed "Oncoming Traffic", "Melissa", and "Georgia on My Mind " solo and then ended with "Midnight Rider", backed by fellow inductees Bill Berry , Peter Buck , and Mike Mills from R.E.M. at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta .

He played the character of "Gaines" in the movie "Rush " with Jason Patric and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Personal life

Gregg struggled with drugs both legal and illegal, primarily cocaine , heroin , and alcohol , from the 1970s onward. He was sober as of the mid-1990s. He continues to tour every year with The Allman Brothers Band, which in 2003 released Hittin' the Note , its first studio album in nearly a decade.

On June 23, 2010 Allman underwent liver transplant surgery. He had been diagnosed with Hepatitis C in late 2007 and has been battling the disease ever since.

Marriages, relationships & children

Gregg Allman, May 24, 2005
Photo: Carl Lender

Allman has been married at least six times and has several children and three grandchildren.

His son, Michael Sean Allman, was born in July 1966 to Mary Sutton. His marriage to Shelley Kay Winters (later Jefts), produced another son, Devon Allman , on August 10, 1972. Devon is also a musician, and leads the band Honeytribe , and has appeared with the Allman Brothers Band on a few occasions. He also has a son of his own making that Gregg's third grandchild.

At the time of his first solo album, Laid Back, Allman was married to Jan Blair (1973–1975), sister of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ' bassist, Ron Blair .

Allman's most famous marriage was to the singer/actress Cher from 1975 to 1979. Together they became the parents of a son, Elijah Blue Allman , who later formed his own band, Deadsy . The couple even tried a musical collaboration, releasing their record album Two the Hard Way (billed as Allman and Woman) in 1977. It was universally panned, and it has long since been out of print. The Hard Way Tour was staged with Cher making appearances, and it did not meet with much success either.

He was married to Julie Bindas (parents Julian and Lotte Bindas) from 1979 to 1981; they had a daughter, Delilah Island Allman, November 5, 1980. During this time, they spent most of their time on the west coast of Florida.[citation needed ]

Around 1992, he met Shelby Blackburn, who first interviewed him at a radio station where she worked. Out of this relationship came daughter Layla Brooklyn Allman , who was born March 31, 1993. Layla fronts the band Picture Me Broken .

He married Stacey Fountain in 2001.

Gregg currently lives in Richmond Hill, Georgia .

Influences

  • Blind Willie McTell - legendary Atlanta 12-string guitarist, composer of Statesboro Blues also influenced Bob Dylan , and Taj Majal .
  • Little Milton
  • Floyd Miles

Discography

Albums

  • 1973 Laid Back
  • 1974 The Gregg Allman Tour (live)
  • 1977 Playin' Up a Storm - The Gregg Allman Band
  • 1977 Two the Hard Way - Allman and Woman (Cher)
  • 1986 I'm No Angel - The Gregg Allman Band
  • 1988 Just Before The Bullets Fly - The Gregg Allman Band
  • 1997 Searching for Simplicity
  • 1997 One More Try: An Anthology
  • 2002 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection (compilation)
  • 2002 No Stranger to the Dark: The Best of Gregg Allman (different compilation, with three new tracks)
  • 2011 Low Country Blues

See also

  • List of Hammond organ players

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