Like a weathered bull gator growling into the microphone, he has a voice as distinctive as any musician alive. Gregg Allman is clean and sober, thankful for the 2010 liver transplant that saved his life. Citing unfounded concern that they do not want to risk being considered a nostalgia act, the Allman Brothers Band announced they will no longer tour after Trucks and Haynes depart. After years of propping up the institution, guitarists Haynes and Trucks have announced they will leave at the end of 2014 to focus on their own careers. This biography comes at a major crossroads for the Allman Brothers Band. With Derek's help, in 2009 Clapton accepted the band's invitation to join them on stage for the first time at the Beacon Theatre in New York, a milestone of the band's 40th anniversary celebration. When Derek got old enough to join the band, his fearless improvisations led Gregg to suspect he was Duane reincarnate. The band's introduction to Trucks' then 10-year-old nephew, guitar prodigy Derek Trucks, brings another humorous high point in One Way Out. Warren Haynes gets his due as the cohesive guitar virtuoso, singer and band leader whose level head kept the train on track for many years. At just 24, he died of massive head and internal injuries. 29, 1971, just as the Allman Brothers Band's live album documenting their transcendent Fillmore performance of classics like In Memory of Elizabeth Reed and Whippin' Post started to catch fire, Duane laid down his motorcycle to avoid hitting a semitrailer truck on a hill in Macon, Ga. Another landmark moment came when Duane traveled to Miami to be part of Eric Clapton's historic Layla sessions the reader can feel the creative, stoned-out electricity between guitar gods. According to Trucks, that historic session happened at the Gray House in the city's Riverside district.Įarly on, music promoter Bill Graham gave the band an enormous vote of confidence, having them close the 1971 final show at his landmark New York City concert venue, the Fillmore East. Trucks' description of his visceral reaction to the band's first jam session in Jacksonville is an emotional high point in One Way Out. The two drummers continue side by side in their fifth decade as bandmates. When fellow founding member Butch Trucks met Jaimoe in Jacksonville in 1969, he admitted never having been in such close company with a black man. Lead guitarist Duane's early friendship with African-American drummer Jai Johanny Johanson, known as 'Jaimoe,' became a parable on racial tolerance in the Deep South.

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