Thanks to a distinct melting pot of genres, a scintillating dual guitar act that reinvented the wheel for two-pronged player partnerships and a borderline unrivaled live energy, the Allman Brothers ...

Before Warren Haynes formed the legendary jam band, Gov’t Mule, he was playing guitar in the Allman Brothers Band. First, he joined the Dickey Betts Band in 1988. Betts formed the band after the ...

A bunch of wildly talented Florida boys, including Dickey Betts, the guitar-wielding hellion from Bradenton, formed the Allman Brothers Band in Jacksonville in 1969. They were rock stars in the ’70s, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Allman Brothers’ music is surging on iTunes in the U.S.

For most of their career, the Leer Brothers Band were just on the edge of stardom. Their identity was often in flux, as they were known under quite a few different names during their decade and a half ...

Dickey Betts — guitarist, lyricist, vocalist and founding member of The Allman Brothers, died in April at the age of 81. With his passing, only one original member of the seminal Southern rock band ...