Clearly in an effort to detract from the hamper availing my posts confer, here’s a little combo I have just chanced upon, one that might appeal here, thinking of @niallb amongst others.
Allman Betts Band, with the sons of Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts and Berry Oakley. And a decent racket they make too. Devon Allman has a track record with his own band and with the Royal Southern Brotherhood, his earlier amalgam of the Allman/Neville bros family trees, and the boy Betts, confusingly (if understandably) called Duane, has been live guitarist with Dawes in recent years.
What price they mysteriously somewhere/sometime appear on a bill with Tedeschi-Trucks Band and make a surprise coalescence?
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Vulpes Vulpes says
Gordon Bennett, do they really look like that?
Have these people absolutely no single atom of self-awareness? They look like the imaginary rock stars a particularly culturally deprived 12 year old might idly sketch in blue biro on the cover of their Maths exercise book during a particularly draining double Chemistry lesson.
Dark shades? Check
Facial growth? Check
Hat thing? Check
Necklace thing? Check
Tatts? Check (obvs)
Swaggery pose? Check
Serious facial grimace? Check
I can only hope their music isn’t as sadly predictable.
Vulpes Vulpes says
After a quick listen I’m glad to say that I think they cut the mustard just fine – they still have a few stumbles to iron out, and they need to be careful not to make every song go on just a little bit too long.
FWIW I hope they plough this furrow long enough to mature and mellow that glorious baked-in fluidity that made Brothers & Sisters such an unalloyed joy.
And I still think they need to get better personal stylists, or at least learn to shop somewhere else as well as KMart or Dickies…
niallb says
Thanks for the tip retro but I can’t get any sound on it. Tried on 3 bits of kit but, nada.
I have looked at Youtube and found them doing In Memory of Elizabeth Reed. It sounds great but I’d need to hear some original material before making a judgement – otherwise they might just as well be an Allmans tribute band.
Vulpes Vulpes says
The sound seems to start emerging around 50 seconds in. Weird!