Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. – Dickey Betts, a driving force behind the Allman Brothers Band that launched Southern rock and influenced ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Allman Brothers’ music is surging on iTunes in the U.S.

Now finally, today we spent a lot of time remembering Jimmy Carter's legacy as a politician and humanitarian. Now we're going to learn how Jimmy Carter's love of music and his friendship with the ...

The Allman Brothers Band lead guitarist Dickey Betts plays with the band during their concert in Dallas, TX, at the Starplex Amphitheater in May 2003. File Photo/Staff / 130977 Dickey Betts, who died ...

Florida honors Allman Brothers guitarist Dickey Betts, singer of the hit song "Ramblin’ Man," with a memorial highway through ...

The Allman Brothers Band had a 44-year run that landed the group in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Now, two guitar-playing sons of the band's founders lead the Allman Betts Family Revival Band. They're ...

On Nov. 2, 1972, the Allman Brothers Band made their live debut with a new lineup. Duane Allman, the band’s transcendent guitarist and leader, had died a year earlier in a motorcycle accident. His ...

A bunch of wildly talented Florida boys, including guitar-wielding hellion Dickey Betts, formed The Allman Brothers Band in 1969. They were rock stars in the ’70s, nearly became a rock footnote in the ...

Purchases you make through our links may earn us and our publishing partners a commission. All the cool kids were listening to country rock in the 1970s, and no album did a better job of melding those ...

Devon Allman met Duane Betts for the first time back in 1989. The two were out on the road with their dads – the late, great Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts – after the Allman Brothers Band had ...