Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living.

I'm your host, Sid Evans.

And in this episode, I'm talking with someone who comes from Southern Rock royalty,

but who's also charting his own musical path.

Devin Allman grew up in Corpus Christi,

Texas and St. Louis, Missouri, and didn't meet his father, Greg Alman, until he was a teenager.

A simple letter brought the two of them together, and before long, Devin was going on tour with the Allman Brothers band and getting to know his dad. In another twist of fate,

he met his longtime collaborator, Dwayne Betts, the son of Dickie Betts, founding guitarist for the

Elman Brothers, and now the two of them are using all that genetic talent to celebrate their

musical legacy and find audiences of their own. We'll talk about all that, the Allman Family Revival tour, and Devin's recent marriage on this week's Biscuits and Jam.

Kevin Allman, welcome to Biscuits and Jam.

Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.

Where am I reaching you right now?

I'm in Clayton, Missouri right now at home, and boy, it's cold.

How do you like it up there? You've spent a lot of years in Missouri around St. Louis.

I have. Yeah. I've been here a long time now, probably 30 years. I was born and raised in South Texas and ended up here in my high school years. My mom remarried a pilot, and he got a gig with TWA Airlines, which was hubbed here in St. Louis. So, you know,

if he would have got a gig with Delta, I might be talking to you from Atlanta. It's just how fate

kind of spins it all out. But through the years, when I thought about, hey, maybe I'll scoot out of

here. Something always kind of pulls me back and it's been home for a long time.

So I've always wondered, does St. Louis feel southern to you or kind of somewhere in between?

That's a really good question.

It is truly, and I can say this with the education from touring, it is the only city in America where I feel a confluence of all four directions of America.

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