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Audie Prize Nominee, Biography and Memoir, 2013 Among the greatest rock symbols of all time, Gregg Allman has lived it all and then some. For almost 50 years, he's been creating a few of the most recognizable songs in American rock, but nothing you've seen prior has he paused to reflect on the long street he's journeyed. Now, he explains to the unflinching story of his life, laying bare the unvarnished fact about his outrageous drive that has spanned over the years. The story commences simply: with Gregg and his elderly sibling, Duane, growing up in the South, nurturing hell with their guitars, and drifting from one band to some other. But all the changed when Duane and Gregg came up as well as four other men to forge something new - a unique sound formed by soul, rock, and blues and filled with experimentation; a audio not just of the band, but of a family group. Bringing alive the carefree start of the Allman Brothers Band, Gregg holds nothing at all back again - from run-ins with regulations to meeting women on the road, from jamming at the Fillmore East to experimenting with drugs. Along the way, he runs behind the views of a few of greatest rock music ever saved, without shying away from the infamous and unpleasant deaths of his sibling, Duane, and Allman Brothers bassist Berry Oakley. Speaking for the first time about the profound impact that his brother's death experienced on him, Gregg offers a tribute to Duane that only a more youthful sibling could write, displaying how, even today, he still confronts the grief of sacrificing his big brother, even while Duane continues to steer and inspire him. Arranging the record straight about the band's battles in the face of death, Gregg shows the way the decision to persevere came with much price. As the rock-and-roll excesses of drugs, alcoholic beverages, and personality clashes resulted in some breakups that culminated with the band's permanent reunion in 1989, Gregg fought his own battle with substance abuse, heading to rehab no less than 11 times and floating via a string of failed relationships, including his tabloid-frenzied romantic relationship with Cher, before finally cleaning up once and for all. Acquiring the Allman Brothers' ongoing, triumphant resurgence as well as his own recent fight hepatitis C, Gregg presents a tale as genuine as it is exciting, providing a view inside one of the most beloved and notorious rings in the history of rock music and demonstrating how, through it all, the road goes on forever.
