REMEMBERING GREGG ALLMAN: GRITTY SOUL, QUIET INTENSITY . When Gregg Allman died at home in Savannah, Georgia on May 27 at age 69, we lost one of American music’s great voices, an artist who braided various strands of roots music into a thrilling new amalgam that ultimately had a massive reach. In the main, history tends to recognize the blisteringly soulful singer of The Allman Brothers Band as a founding father of Southern rock. . But as the skilled keyboardist himself once lamented in regards to fussing over needless classifications, “Everybody has to have a name on music.” The group’s impact was broad. While the trajectories of Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Marshall Tucker Band, et al. would have been drastically different without the Allmans’ innovations, so would the ’90s jam-band scene, the alt-country/Americana movement, and strains of contemporary country. Chris Stapleton and Eric Church have both covered Allman Brothers songs. . Inspired by blues, soul, jazz, and rock ‘n’ roll, The Allman Brothers Band made a musical statement that was earthy, progressive, brainy and ballsy. And at the center of this perfect storm was Gregg – growling, moaning, and pleading the blues, and laying into his Hammond organ like some of mix of Jimmy Smith, Booker T. Jones, and Steve Winwood. Ballads were a particular forte. On tracks such as “Please Call Home” and “Melissa,” his voice did the heavy lifting, becoming the focal point of the performance by registering deep anguish and hushed delight, respectively. When the song fit him – as did “All My Friends,” from his 1973 solo disc, Laid Back – he could be devastating. (Link in bio for full article)

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