In many ways, Gregg Allman was like Keith Richards - he had cheated death so many times that he was one of those people you half expected to always be here.Īllman was one of the greatest of the blues singers, and if his voice always carried with it a sense of anguish and torment, he came by it honestly. Gregg seemed much more comfortable standing in the shadows than he ever did under the glare of the spotlight, especially one held by a journalist.īut like many other people, I did know Gregg on a deeply personal level through his music and felt a profound sense of loss when news broke Saturday afternoon that he had died at the age of 69 from liver cancer. I interviewed him a few times, spent some time hanging out with him, but he was always shy and reserved. Although my book Midnight Riders (Little, Brown & Company, 1995) was the first full-scale biography of the Allman Brothers Band, I didn’t know Gregg the way I know some of the other members of the band. I can’t profess that I knew Gregg Allman on a deeply personal level.
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