Gregg Allman

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.

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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

Origin

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Occupation

singer / keyboardist / guitarist / writer / autobiographer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Boar

High school

Seabreeze High School

Awards & achievements

• 2011 Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance
• Maple Blues Awards

• Official sitehttps://greggallman.com
• Xhttps://x.com/GreggAllman
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg%20Allman
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503264

Tags

• Tennessee
• singer
• keyboardist
• guitarist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.