Authors: Gregg Allman
Tags: #Entertainment & Performing Arts, #Personal Memoirs, #Music, #Rock, #Biography & Autobiography, #Genres & Styles, #Composers & Musicians
and breakup of the band, 254, 274
forming the band, 99–100, 106, 107
getting back together, 285–86, 314, 318, 343
Trucks, Derek, 202, 290, 320–21, 337, 341, 353, 356, 377
Trucks, Melinda, 337
Trude Heller’s, 72
Tucker, Marshall, 211, 292
Turner, Ike and Tina, 88, 211
“Turn On Your Love Light,” 50, 91, 132
Two the Hard Way
, 280
Vaughan, Stevie Ray, 301–2
Waibel, Bruce, 300, 301
Walden, Phil, 114–15, 116–17, 129, 139, 141, 146, 147, 163, 164, 198, 210, 251, 254, 263, 269, 280, 285–86, 292, 373–74
“Walk, Don’t Run,” 62
“Walk on Gilded Splinters,” 151
Waronker, Lenny, 280
Was, Don, 374
“Wasted Words,” 218
Waters, Muddy, 63, 352
Watkins, Anne, 136, 156
Watkins Glen festival, 221–22
Weeks, Willie, 280
“Weight, The,” 95
Weiner, Jerry, 338
Welch, Lenny, 49
Wells, Junior, 151
Wells, Sylvan, 62
Weston, Doug, 86, 244–45
Wexler, Jerry, 114–15, 139, 189–90, 197
“When a Man Loves a Woman,” 70
Where It All Begins
, 335, 336
“Whipping Post,” 111, 112–13, 168, 169, 212, 290, 314
Whitlock, Bobby, 169
“Wild Thing,” 49
Williams, Lamar, 218, 241, 253, 269, 285, 287
Williamson, Sonny Boy, 63
Wilsey, Shannon, 307–8
Wilson, Jackie, 29–30, 63
Win, Lose or Draw
, 250–51, 252–54, 259, 264, 267–69
Winwood, Steve, 309
Woody, Allen, 159, 171, 315–16, 317–18, 319, 328, 336, 341
“Wooly Bully,” 70
Yardbirds, 63
“Yesterday,” 63
“You Don’t Love Me,” 286
Young, Rusty, 97
Zanuck, Lili, 322
GREGG ALLMAN
is one of the original members of the Allman Brothers Band and a legend of American music. A recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and continues to make music as a solo artist and with the Allman Brothers. A multiple Grammy Award winner, he has sold millions of records around the world, with his most recent album,
Low Country Blues
, debuting at No. 5 on the
Billboard
chart. He lives in Georgia.
ALAN LIGHT
is a frequent contributor to
Rolling Stone
and the
New York Times
. The former editor-in-chief of
Spin
and
Vibe
magazines, he is a two-time winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music writing.
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MY CROSS TO BEAR.
Copyright © 2012 by Gregg Allman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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