Dan Auerbach on the Lasting Influence of Gregg Allman

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🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Dan Auerbach has called Gregg Allman “the foundation of what I do.” On the ninth anniversary of the Allman Brothers Band leader’s death, Auerbach joins Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now for a very special episode filmed at Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound in Nashville. The Black Keys singer-guitarist goes deep into how Allman influenced him personally, as well as the music of the Black Keys, and opens up about the grief that informed the band’s new album Peaches!, which was recorded as Auerbach’s father was dying. It’s an emotional interview, steeped in music history and the legacy of Gregg Allman, only on Nashville Now. Country is Here… Nashville is Now. Check out our Hear Now playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.9	Hello everyone. Welcome to Rolling Stone's Nashville Now podcast. I am your host, deputy editor, Rolling
0:36.5	Stone, Joseph Hudak, here in the Nashville
0:39.3	Now cabin. Country is here. Nashville is now. We got a cool episode today. We leave the
0:45.7	confines of the cabin to go to the very moody and very cool, very retro and throwback. Easy-Ey
0:53.3	Sound Studios right here in Nashville at his ground zero for Dan Auerbach and the Black Keys.
1:00.4	We talked to Dan about the Black Keys new album, Peaches, but we also talk to Dan about Greg
1:07.6	Allman.
1:08.4	Today, the day this podcast drops, it is the ninth anniversary of Greg
1:13.6	Alman's death at age 69. The leader of the Alman Brothers band, he was just a force of nature.
1:21.8	And as Dan says in our interview, part of the foundation of American music. The other reason we're talking
1:29.7	to Dan is he is involved in a new documentary about Greg Olman, titled Greg Allman, the
1:35.3	Music of My Soul. It is directed by James Keach and produced by Michael Lehman, released by subtext
1:43.7	in association with Rolling Stone films.
1:46.4	So Rolling Stone, James Keach, Michael Lehman, we all teamed up for this great documentary
1:51.5	about the life and times of Greg Allman.
1:54.6	We enlisted Dan and Marcus King to record and perform a live version of Come and Go Blues, which the Allman Brothers band
2:04.9	famously recorded. Dan produces that for us. He produces Marcus's performance. And if you go to
2:12.1	Rolling Stone's YouTube channel, you can see that premiering today as well. I'll give you all the details about the
2:19.2	Greg Oman documentary when we wrap up. But just so you know, the top line, it opens Wednesday,
2:25.3	June 17th, 2026 and includes one-week engagements in L.A. and New York, as well as one-night,
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