The Allman Brothers Band

With no slight to Lynyrd Skynyrd intended, these guys wrote the book on Southern Rock. 
The Kings(1960 - ?)  (Daytona Beach, Florida)
  • Gregg Allman - keyboards/guitar/vocals - b. December 8, 1947, Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Duane Allman - guitar - b. November 20, 1946, Nashville, Tennessee; d. October 29, 1971, Macon, Georgia.
The Allman Joys(1965 - 1967)
  • Gregg Allman - guitar/vocals
  • Duane Allman - guitar/vocals
  • Bob Keller - bass/vocals
  • Maynard Portwood - drums
The Hourglass I (1967 - 1968) (Los Angeles, California)
  • Gregg Allman - keyboards/vocals
  • Duane Allman - guitar
  • Paul Hornsby - keyboards/guitar/vocals
  • Mabron McKinley - bass
  • Johnny Sandlin - drums
Album:
  1. "Hourglass" (1967)
The Hourglass II (1968) (Los Angeles, California)
  • Gregg Allman - keyboards/vocals
  • Duane Allman - guitar
  • Paul Hornsby - keyboards/guitar/vocals
  • Jesse Willard Carr - bass
  • Johnny Sandlin - drums
Album:
  1. "Power of Love" (1968)
The Hourglass III (1968) (Los Angeles, California)
  • Gregg Allman - keyboards/vocals
  • Duane Allman - guitar
  • Paul Hornsby - keyboards/guitar/vocals
  • Pete Carr - bass
  • Johnny Sandlin - drums
The 31st of February(1968)
  • Gregg Allman - keyboards/vocals
  • Duane Allman - guitar
  • Scott Boyer - guitar/vocals
  • David Brown - bass
  • Butch Trucks - drums - b. Jacksonville, Florida
Album:
  1. "Duane and Gregg" (1968)
The Second Coming(1968)
  • Gregg Allman - keyboards/guitar/vocals
  • Dickey Betts - guitar/vocals - b. December 12, 1943, West Palm Beach, Florida - formerly with Tommy Roe and the Romans.
  • Dale Betts - keyboards/vocals
  • Reese Wynans - keyboards
  • Berry Oakley - bass - b. April 4, 1948, Chicago, Illinois; d. November 11, 1972, Macon, Georgia - formerly with Tommy Roe and the Romans.
  • John Meeks - drums
The Allman Brothers Band I(1968 - 1971)
  • Gregg Allman - keyboards/guitar/vocals
  • Duane Allman - guitar
  • Dickey Betts - guitar/vocals
  • Berry Oakley - bass
  • Jai Johanny Johanson (a.k.a. Jaimoe) - drums - b. John Lee Johnson on July 8, 1944, Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
  • Butch Trucks - drums
Albums:
  1. "The Allman Brothers Band" (1969)
  2. "Idlewild South" (1970)
  3. "At Fillmore East" (live) (1971)
  4. "Live at Ludlow's Garage, 1970" (1990)
Duane Allman died on October 29, 1971, in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia.
The Allman Brothers Band II(1971 - 1972)
  • Gregg Allman - keyboards/guitar/vocals
  • Dickey Betts - guitar/vocals
  • Berry Oakley - bass
  • Jai Johanny Johanson (a.k.a. Jaimoe) - drums
  • Butch Trucks - drums
Albums:
  1. "Eat a Peach" (1972)
Berry Oakley died on November 11, 1972, in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia.
The Allman Brothers Band III(1972 - 1978)
  • Gregg Allman - keyboards/guitar/vocals
  • Dickey Betts - guitar/vocals
  • Jai Johanny Johanson (a.k.a. Jaimoe) - drums
  • Butch Trucks - drums
  • Chuck Leavell - keyboards
  • Lamar Williams - bass - b. 1947; d. January 25, 1983, Los Angeles, California (Agent Orange-related cancer).
Albums:
  1. "Brothers and Sisters" (1973)
  2. "Beginnings" (1974)
  3. "Win, Lose or Draw" (1975)
  4. "The Road Goes On Forever" (1975)
  5. "Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas" (1976)
Chuck Leavell, Lamar Williams, and Jai Johanny Johanson form jazz-tinted Sea Level with guitarist Jimmy Nalls.
The Allman Brothers Band IV(1978 - 1982)
  • Gregg Allman - keyboards/guitar/vocals
  • Dickey Betts - guitar/vocals
  • Jai Johanny Johanson (a.k.a. Jaimoe) - drums
  • Butch Trucks - drums
  • Dan Toler - guitar
  • Rook Goldflies - bass
Albums:
  1. "Enlightened Rogues" (1979)
  2. "Reach for the Sky" (1980)
  3. "Brothers of the Road" (1981)
The Allman Brothers Band V(1982)
  • Gregg Allman - keyboards/guitar/vocals
  • Dickey Betts - guitar/vocals
  • Butch Trucks - drums
  • Dan Toler - guitar - formerly with Dickey Betts and Great Southern.
  • Rook Goldflies - bass
  • Chuck Leavell - keyboards
Group disbands.  Butch Trucks forms Trucks.
The Allman Brothers Band VI(1989 - 1990) (reformed)
  • Gregg Allman - keyboards/guitar/vocals
  • Dickey Betts - guitar/vocals
  • Jai Johanny Johanson (a.k.a. Jaimoe) - drums
  • Butch Trucks - drums
  • Warren Haynes - guitar
  • Allen Woody - bass
  • Johnny Neel - keyboards
Albums:
  1. "Seven Turns" (1990)
The Allman Brothers Band VII(1990 - 1998)
  • Gregg Allman - keyboards/guitar/vocals
  • Dickey Betts - guitar/vocals
  • Jai Johanny Johanson (a.k.a. Jaimoe) - drums
  • Butch Trucks - drums
  • Warren Haynes - guitar
  • Allen Woody - bass
Albums:
  1. "Shades of Two Worlds" (1991)
  2. "An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band" (1992)
  3. "Where It All Begins" (1994)
  4. "2nd Set" (1995)
Duane Allman solo:
  1. "Anthology" (1972)
  2. "Anthology, vol. 2" (1974)
Gregg Allman solo:
  1. "Laid Back" (1974)
  2. "The Gregg Allman Tour" (1974)
  3. "Allman and Woman" (1977) (with wife Cher)
  4. "Searching for Simplicity" (1997)
The Gregg Allman Band:
  1. "Playin' Up a Storm" (1977)
  2. "I'm No Angel" (1987)
  3. "Just Before the Bullets Fly" (1988)
Dickey Betts solo:
  1. "Highway Call" (1974)
Dickey Betts and Great Southern:
  1. "Dickey Betts and Great Southern" (1977)
  2. "Atlanta's Burning Down" (1978)
The Dickey Betts Band:
  1. "Pattern Disruptive" (1988)
Sea Level:
  • Chuck Leavell - keyboards
  • Lamar Williams - bass
  • Jai Johanny Johanson (a.k.a. Jaimoe) - drums
  • Jimmy Nalls - guitar
  1. "Sea Level" (1977)
  2. "Cats on the Coast" (1978)
  3. "On the Edge" (1978)
  4. "Long Walk on a Short Pier" (1979)
  5. "Ball Room" (1980)
  6. "Best of Sea Level" (1990)
Compilations:
  1. "The Best of the Allman Brothers Band" (1981)
  2. "Dreams" (box set) (1989)
  3. "Decade of Hits (1969-79)" (1991)
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Last Revised:  July 14, 1999