Gregg Allman was born in Nashville but raised in Daytona Beach. With his guitar-playing brother Duane, organist and singer Gregg formed the Allman Brothers Band after stints in the groups the ...

[as well as] the powerful bass playing of Berry Oakley and the soulful organ and vocals of Gregg Allman." The band was fiercely determined "not to be confined musically or stylistically," Nelson ...

“It was playing the gig to sustain the lifestyle ... nearly perished after taking animal tranquilizer with Gregg Allman. “If we hadn’t gotten him to a doctor, shit, Lamar could have died ...