It would easily be an understatement to claim that legendary songwriter Gregg Allman has had a not-so-easy 2014. The voice and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band had a rough start to the year when Midnight Rider – the film adaptation of his 2012 autobiography My Cross To Bear – stopped production after a fatal on-set disaster left a young camera assistant hit and killed by a train while shooting in Wayne County, Georgia. The presence of that tragedy has only grown in the press after months of pub
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Beyond the cinematic troubles to his legacy, Allman has continued to suffer from illness spawned from years of big living, including Hepatitis C that he claims he obtained from a dirty tattoo needle. The famously long blonde-haired Southern songwriter (who is claimed to be the one who invented the term “Southern Rock”) recently admitted himself into the hospital for non-disclosed reasons, and cancelled a handful of tour dates leading up to his first gig back on the road this past Saturday in Los Angeles.