True Story

In the early 2010’s, my NYC roots band was asked to play the wedding of the daughter of the long time road manager for The Allman Brothers from the 80’s-90’s, because she was a huge fan, and also, we kicked the shit out of Whipping Post live. Even though we weren’t a wedding band, we agreed, because she was a fan and, wait for it, Dickey Betts was invited to the wedding. He was touring and his dates in NJ corresponded with the wedding date.

So we prepared a full wedding set, but also an alternate Dickey Betts set, should he show and want to play… Alas, he didn’t show and we played lots of R&B and 80’s hits to get the folks dancing… but god, I wish he’d showed up.

RIP. Absolute legend.

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