Kevan “Luke” Green has vivid memories of his epic hitchhiking trip, at age 14, from from Tampa, Fla., to visit the spiritual home of the Allman Brothers Band. He came to see the restaurant where they ate, a venue where they played, and especially the graves where two are buried. He especially remembers walking up the hill to get to those graves in Rose Hill Cemetery, a path he followed Sunday with his Florida truck to mark another Allman Brothers homage.

I read an article a few weeks ago about a book tracing Highway 61 (remember the Bob Dylan album?) from where it begins to where it ends in New Orleans. I couldn’t help but think of the road that Dickey Betts made famous in “Ramblin’ Man:” Highway 41…

Public nudity. Drugs. And rock ‘n’ roll. The July 4th weekend of 1970 was wicked wild, especially for the small town of Byron.

MACON, Ga. — It’s been 45 years since a Macon nightclub sold $1 tickets for music fans to hear a new band under local management known as the Allman Brothers Band. Decades later, fans have commemorated the legendary Southern rockers’ arrival in Macon with a plaque outside the Library Ballroom that marks the May 2, 1969, concert as the Allman

From Macon, Georgia – Where It All Began: The History of The Georgia Allman Brother Band Association (GABBA) and The Allman Brothers & Sister Reunion/Revival by Martha Jones Long (Lil’ Martha) (Reprinted from Jambands.com Online Magazine) Last year I joined the Georgia Allman Brothers Band Association (GABBA) and attended my first Allman Brothers and Sisters Reunion/Revival. This was almost a

by Ron Everhart.

Ron’s article was originally submitted to the ALLMAN listserv right after the ’97 GABBAfest.