![]() Lead singer, songwriter and keyboardist for the band since its formation in 1969, Allman never knew his father he was only two when his dad was murdered by a hitchhiker. My Cross to Bear is essential reading for Allman Brothers Band fans. ![]() He writes in a charming, Southern gentlemanly first-person voice with help from Rolling Stone scribe Alan Light and contributing author John Lynskey, a history and government teacher at a Miami high school who has chronicled the Allman Brothers over the years. Given such a forthright enticement, Allman has no trouble hooking readers with the unflinching details of his highs - musical and otherwise - and lows. I was drunk, man, just s -faced drunk, the entire time. I was physically there, but otherwise I was out of it - mentally, emotionally and spiritually. ![]() “The Allman Brothers Band, the band my brother started, the band with our name on it, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and I flat-out missed it. “It should have been the greatest week of my life, but instead I hit an all-time low,” he writes. Any one of Gregg Allman’s stories about his life could lure a reader into his new memoir, but the 64-year-old Allman begins My Cross to Bear with his biggest moment of shame, the induction of the Allman Brothers Band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. ![]()
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