The story of the Allman Brothers Band is one of triumph, tragedy, redemption, dissolution, and a new redemption. Over nearly 30 years, they've gone from being one of America's most influential bands to a has-been group trading on past glories, to reach the 21st century as one of the most respected rock acts of their era.

For the first half of the 1970s, the Allman Brothers Band spent their time redefining rock music and its boundaries. The band's mix of blues, country, jazz, classical influences, and their powerful, extended on-stage jamming, altered the standards of concert performance. Other groups were known for their on-stage jamming, but when the Allman Brothers stretched a song out for 30 or 40 minutes, they gave it all they had with a distinctly Southern voice and, in the process, opened the way for a wave of '70s rock acts from south of the Mason-Dixon Line{1}, including the Marshall Tucker Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Blackfoot, whose musi.....MORE.....(full The Allman Brothers Band biography) ←