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My Take
Gregg Allman is, for my money, one of the great blues voices America produced — weathered, aching, completely unforced. What strikes me is how much loss is baked into the catalog: his brother Duane gone at the band's peak, decades of struggle and rebuilding, and still that Hammond organ rolling underneath like nothing could stop it. Whipping Post is the showpiece, but Melissa is where I hear the real man — gentle, road-worn, homesick. He never sounded like he was performing pain; he sounded like he was reporting it. That honesty is why the Allman Brothers' music keeps outliving trends, and why his passing in 2017 still stings.
Overview
Gregory LeNoir Allman (December 8, 1947 – May 27, 2017) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He was known for performing in the Allman Brothers Band. Allman grew up with an interest in rhythm and blues music, and the Allman Brothers Band fused it with rock music, jazz, and country. He wrote several of the band's most popular songs, including "Whipping Post", "Melissa", and "Midnight Rider".
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Gregg Allman
- Name (Japanese)
- グレッグ・オールマン
- Reading
- ぐれっぐ・おーるまん
- Born
- December 8, 1947 – May 27, 2017
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Boar
- Origin
- Saint Thomas Hospital, Tennessee, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer / keyboardist / guitarist / writer / autobiographer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Seabreeze High School
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2011 Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance
- Maple Blues Awards
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Singer — see all → · Keyboardist — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.