I'm Bob Crawford.

I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the road to now.

Man, Ben, I know we're not supposed to do this, but sometimes you gotta ask, um, you gotta ask forgiveness and not permission.

Anytime you asked me to do a podcast where the research is listening to the Allman Brothers at Fillmore East,

I'm in because 20 years ago, oh my God, about 20, maybe more 20 years ago,

I lived in a house near UNCC

where if you walk through the front door, you had about a one and four chance of hearing

that album, wearing from the turntable speakers. And the other, one of the other opportunities

would be you would hear Stevie Wonder songs in the key of life

but that album is an old friend of mine and so when you said that your friend Bob Beatty had

written a book called Play All Night Dwayne Allman and The Journey to Fillmore East I said said, I'm in. Let's do it. Yeah, Bob. I'm pretty excited about it too. One of the things about that that's funny is, I did walk through that door, Bob. I came to your house. I came to your house a couple of times when you lived over there. I think before you even knew Scott or Seth, I kind of knew who you were. With Steve-Voe? Yeah, with Steve-O-D?

Yeah.

With Steve-O?

I still think it's funny that in some world, I knew you before you knew Scott or Seth. But you know what? Before all that is the Allman Brothers. And, oh, man, I'm going to, Bob, I'm going to let you take the top of this. I've got like there's so much I learned about this band because anyone who listens to the show knows I love music, but I'm not a music historian. And this actually explained a lot for me. So, Bob, I'm going to let you pick this up. But first, let's say, Bob Beattie, welcome to the road to now. Thank you for having me, gentlemen, I appreciate it immensely. What is the journey for you writing a book about a Southern rock band in this period, right? The goal of this book or the climax is this album at Fillmore East. Why this band? Why This Album? Yeah, so there's a bunch of questions kind of packed into that, but we'll get to

the kind of why this band first. Same time you were hanging out in that apartment or that house

listening to the music. I was doing the same thing. It was actually about 30 years ago, and I got

a greatest hits album. In fact, the preface says a greatest hits album changed my life of a band that had no hits,

really.

Ramblin Man was the number two hit, and they had a top 30 hit in late 70s.

But for the most part, they didn't have hits.

And I had been playing guitar at that point, probably about 10 years, maybe a little less.

And I already knew about the blues. I'd already spent

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