Gregg Allman

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Gregg Allman (2006)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Laid back
  US 13 11/24/1973 (39 weeks)
Gregg Allman Tour
  US 50 11/16/1974 (12 weeks)
Playin 'Up a Storm
  US 42 06/11/1977 (12 weeks)
I'm no angel
  US 30th 07.03.1987 (28 weeks)
Just Before the Bullets Fly (Gregg Allman Band)
  US 117 08/06/1988 (11 weeks)
Low country blues
  DE 83 02/11/2011 (2 weeks)
  AT 66 02/18/2011 (1 week)
  UK 48 02/19/2011 (2 weeks)
  US 5 02/05/2011 (11 weeks)
All My Friends - Celebrating the Songs & Voice
  DE 51 06/13/2014 (1 week)
  AT 70 06/13/2014 (1 week)
Live: Back to Macon, GA
  DE 47 08/14/2015 (1 week)
  US 124 08/29/2015 (1 week)
Southern Blood
  DE 34 09/15/2017 (1 week)
  AT 49 09/22/2017 (1 week)
  CH 21st 09/17/2017 (3 weeks)
  UK 79 09/21/2017 (1 week)
  US 11 09/30/2017 (4 weeks)
Singles
Midnight Rider
  US 19th 12/22/1973 (12 weeks)
I'm no angel
  US 49 04/04/1987 (10 weeks)

Gregory Lenoir "Gregg" Allman (born December 8, 1947 in Nashville , Tennessee , †  May 27, 2017 in Savannah , Georgia ) was an American rock musician , singer and songwriter . He was best known as the singer of the Allman Brothers Band .

biography

Career

The brothers Gregg and Duane Allman grew up in Daytona Beach , Florida . They played in various bands, including The Escorts and The Allman Joys, which got a recording deal in Los Angeles as The Hour Glass . They recorded two psychedelic blues albums but weren't happy with the result. The group broke up, and Gregg Allman attempted a solo career.

In the meantime, his brother Duane had put together a band in Jacksonville , which Gregg joined as a singer in 1969. He also took over the Hammond organ , which he had to learn to play first. The Allman Brothers Band went down in rock music history. In 1973 Gregg Allman brought out the solo album Laid Back . In the next decades, solo and band careers ran parallel. Solo Allman was initially supported by the Gregg Allman Band, later he appeared under the name Gregg Allman and Friends. Gregg Allman had his biggest solo hit in 1986 with I'm No Angel .

Gregg Allman was still with the Allman Brothers Band and with Gregg Allman and Friends until the end of his life. In January 2014, a tribute concert was held in his honor at the Fox Theater in Atlanta , where Warren Haynes , Derek Trucks , Susan Tedeschi , Devon Allman, Sam Moore , Keb 'Mo' , Dr. John , John Hiatt , Taj Mahal , Jackson Browne and Allman himself performed and which was recorded for a CD / DVD release.

The Rolling Stone listed Allman as 70th of the 100 best singers of all time .

Private life and death

In the 1970s, Allman was married to singer and actress Cher . Their son, Elijah Blue Allman , is also a musician. Another son from another relationship, Devon Allman, is also active as a musician, including in the band project Royal Southern Brotherhood.

Allman used drugs and was addicted to alcohol for years before going into rehab in the mid-1990s. He later suffered from hepatitis C and had a liver transplant in 2010 . He died on May 27, 2017 at his home in Savannah, aged 69 .

Discography

  • 1973: Laid Back
  • 1974: Gregg Allman Tour
  • 1977: Playin 'Up a Storm
  • 1977: Allman & Woman - Two the Hard Way (with Cher )
  • 1987: I'm No Angel
  • 1988: Just Before the Bullets Fly
  • 1997: Searching for Simplicity
  • 2011: Low Country Blues
  • 2011: Live at the 2011 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
  • 2015: Live: Back to Macon, GA (double CD / DVD set)
  • 2017: Southern Blood (released September 8, 2017)

Further publications with the Allman Brothers .

literature

  • Gregg Allman (with Alan Light), My Cross to Bear (autobiography), New York: William Morrow 2012, ISBN 978-0-06-211203-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US1 US2
  2. ↑ a b Southern Rock: Gregg Allman is dead , Die Zeit , May 27, 2017.
  3. ↑ 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 9, 2017 .
  4. ^ Richard Gehr: Gregg Allman, Southern Rock Pioneer, Dead at 69. In: Rolling Stone . Wenner Media, May 27, 2017, accessed on May 27, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Allman, Gregg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allman, Gregory Lenoir (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rock musician, singer, and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashville , Tennessee , United States
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2017
Place of death Savannah , Georgia , United States