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Allman Betts Family Revival Tour Honors Dickey Betts on His 80th Birthday

Dickey Betts, on his 80th birthday, with his son Duane Betts (R) and Devon Allman, Dec. 12, 2023 (Photo: Chris Brush; used with permission)

The 2023 Allman Family Revival Tour, a coast-to-coast celebration of the music of Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts, celebrated the latter’s 80th birthday on December 12, with a performance in Sarasota, Fla., with Betts in attendance. According to the original Aug. 8 tour announcement, “It promises nearly three action-packed hours that will leave fans with the musical experience of a lifetime.”

The Allman Family Revival initially began as a one-off concert in 2017 at the Fillmore in San Francisco to celebrate the late Gregg Allman’s life on what would have been his 70th birthday. Now in its seventh year, it has since expanded into a full tour.

This year the tour, which began on Nov. 25, officially rebranded as the Allman Betts Family Revival . Devon Allman (son of Gregg) and Duane Betts (son of Dickey), says a press release, “have hand-picked an array of guests who will perform two sets—one featuring songs by Gregg Allman and one featuring songs by Dickey Betts. Fans will enjoy listening to the hits along with the deep cuts from their legendary Allman Brothers catalog, performed by Anders Osborne, Luther Dickinson and Cody Dickenson (North Mississippi Allstars), Jimmy Hall (Jeff Beck, Wet Willie), Jackie Greene, Larry McCray, Alex Orbison, Ally Venable, Devon Allman, Duane Betts, and the Allman Betts Band featuring Tal Wilkenfeld on bass (Jeff Beck). There will also be guest artists that will join the tour in select cities, including Chuck Leavell, Sierra Hull, G. Love and more. The tour will also welcome back the Brotherhood of Light for visuals.

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Dec 15 @ Ryman Auditorium | Nashville, TN (with G. Love) Dec 16 @ Mobile Civic Center | Mobile, AL Dec 17 @ ACL Live at The Moody Theater | Austin, TX

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The Allman Betts Family Revival tour has announced an extensive US itinerary for November and December. Previously known as the the Allman Family Revival, it has been officially rebranded with the new name, presented by Gibson, to reflect the tour’s recognition of both Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts from the original Allman Brothers Band .

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The event began as a one-off concert in 2017 at the Fillmore in San Francisco, as a celebration of Allman’s life , on what would have been his 70th birthday. It’s now in its seventh year and has expanded into a full, guest-packed tour, opening on November 25 in Saint Louis, MO.

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Gregg’s son Devon Allman and Dickey’s, Duane Betts, have hand-picked an impressive line-up of guests who will perform two sets, one featuring songs by Gregg Allman and the other by Dickey Betts. These will be accompanied by deep cuts from the Allman Brothers Band catalog.

The performing bill includes Luther and Cody Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars), Anders Osborne, Jimmy Hall (Jeff Beck, Wet Willie), Jackie Greene, Larry McCray, Orbi Orbison, Ally Venable, Devon Allman, Duane Betts, and the Allman Betts Band featuring Tal Wilkenfeld, who also worked with Jeff Beck, on bass. Other guest artists will join the tour in select cities, including Sierra Hull and G. Love, with more to be added. Tickets and up to date information are available at AllmanBettsFamilyRevival.com .

The Brotherhood of Light will again supply the “otherworldly visuals” that were part of the Allman Brothers Band’s shows during their heyday. The full show will extend across three hours each night, culminating in a show in Austin, Texas on December 17.

The Allman Betts Family Revival Tour dates in full:

November 25 @ The Factory | Saint Louis, MO November 26 @ Brown County Music Center | Nashville, IN November 27 @ The Arcada Theater | St. Charles, IL November 29 @ Kleinhans Music Hall | Buffalo, NY November 30 @ Santander Performing Arts Center | Reading, PA December 1 @ Orpheum Theater | Boston, MA December 2 @ Beacon Theatre | New York, NY December 3 @ The Paramount | Huntington, NY December 5 @ Capitol One Hall | Tysons, VA December 7 @ Macon City Auditorium | Macon, GA December 8 @ Gaillard Center | Charleston, SC December 10 @ Sunrise Theatre | Fort Pierce, FL December 12 @ Van Wezel PAC | Sarasota, FL December 13 @ Florida Theatre | Jacksonville, FL December 15 @ Ryman Auditorium | Nashville, TN December 17 @ ACL Live at The Moody Theater | Austin, TX

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August 9, 2023 at 1:13 pm

Where the hell is Berry Duane Oakley in all of this? Did he get booted from the band that was supposed to have 3 offspring of original members? No mention of Lamar Williams Jr. either, who is the son of their 2nd bassist, that took over after Berry Oakley died. Wtf?

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Dickey Betts, Allman Brothers Band Guitarist, Dies at 80

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Dickey Betts, whose country-inflected songwriting and blazing, lyrical guitar work opposite Duane Allman in the Allman Brothers Band helped define the Southern rock genre of the ‘60s and ‘70s, died Thursday in Osprey, Fla. He was 80.

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Riding a powerful twin-guitar sound that fused rock, blues and country, the Allman Brothers Band inspired a host of like-minded groups throughout the South, many of which would find a home at Capricorn Records, the custom imprint established by the Allmans’ manager Phil Walden.

A potent live act noted for their jamming abilities (on such numbers as Betts’ instrumental “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed”), the Allmans made their major commercial breakthrough in 1971 with the No. 13 two-LP concert set “At Fillmore East.”

Duane Allman’s tragic death at 24 in an October 1971 motorcycle accident in Macon thrust Betts into a more prominent role in the group as songwriter, instrumentalist and sometime lead vocalist.

He contributed the band’s long-running concert staple “Blue Sky” to 1972’s “Eat a Peach,” the group’s first album without Duane, which soared to No. 4. The 1973 release “Brothers and Sisters” rose to No. 1 nationally on the back of the countrified Betts-penned single “Ramblin’ Man,” which peaked at No. 2.

Betts’ service with the Allman Brothers Band – which over time would come to include guitarists Dan Toler and Warren Haynes, both members of his solo outfits – proved to be long, discontinuous and frequently tumultuous.

While the group was one of the biggest touring attractions of the day, the escalating drug use and tempestuous interpersonal relationships of its personnel led to a split in 1976, in the wake of their No. 5 album “Win, Lose or Draw.” They regrouped three years later and issued their last top-10 album, “Enlightened Rogues.”

Though the Allmans remained a consistent live draw through the ‘80s and ‘90s despite waning album sales, ongoing conflict between Betts and Gregg Allman came to a head in 2000, when the guitarist made a precipitous exit, under fire from his band mates, from the group he had co-founded 31 years earlier. His onetime sideman Haynes remained with the group until it disbanded for good in 2014.

Both during and after his tenure with the Allmans, Betts sustained a solo career, often under the group handle Great Southern. His most popular solo work was his first LP “Highway Call,” which reached No. 19 in 1974, at the height of the Allmans’ popularity.

Rock journalist-turned-filmmaker Cameron Crowe said he based the character played by Billy Crudup in his rock-themed 2000 film “Almost Famous” on Betts.

“Crudup’s look, and much more, is a tribute to Dickey,” Crowe told Rolling Stone in 2017. “Dickey seemed like a quiet guy with a huge amount of soul, possible danger and playful recklessness behind his eyes. He was a huge presence.”

Betts was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Allman Brothers Band in 1995.

He was born Forrest Richard Betts in West Palm Beach, FL, on Dec. 12, 1943. (He was variously billed professionally as “Dick,” “Dicky” or “Richard” before settling on “Dickey” in the mid-‘70s.) His father and uncles all played music, and he picked up the ukulele at the age of five before graduating to his brother’s guitar. Reared on the Grand Ole Opry’s weekly radio performances, he began gravitating to the blues after hearing local guitarist Jimmy Paramore and became active in a number of regional Florida bands.

Betts’ act the Soul Children became known as the Blues Messengers, and finally the Second Coming, with the addition of bassist Oakley, a Chicago native who had become a fixture on the Sarasota music scene. A fateful meeting with the Allman siblings at a Jacksonville club where the Hour Glass was playing ultimately led the finalization of the six-man Allman Brothers Band lineup in March 1969.

Its original incarnation had its apotheosis on “At Fillmore East,” recorded live at Bill Graham’s New York venue in March 1971. Featuring a searing 13-minute rendition of Betts’ “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” (which took its name from a tombstone the guitarist spotted in a Macon cemetery), the set was ultimately certified for sales of 1 million units.

Duane Allman’s sudden death just six months after the live album’s release left the band’s future briefly in doubt, but the surviving members unanimously decided to carry on as a five-piece, with Betts initially taking on de facto leadership.

Just three months after the release of its massive hit “Brothers and Sisters” – which included “Ramblin’ Man” and the memorable Betts instrumental “Jessica,” named after the guitarist’s daughter — bassist Oakley was killed in a motorcycle crash in Macon, just blocks from the site of the accident that took Duane Allman’s life.

While the Allman Brothers Band soldiered on with the surviving original members and a shifting cast of additional personnel, Betts began to split his time with his side projects Great Southern and the Dickey Betts Band, which released three studio albums between 1977-88.

Gregg Allman’s testimony against the Allman Brothers Band’s security man Scooter Herring in a federal drug case led to the rupture of the group in 1976, with Betts declaring in Rolling Stone, “There is no way we can work with Gregg again. Ever.”

However, the band reunited for recording and touring in 1979 (following an initial reconciliation at a Great Southern show in New York’s Central Park) and – after another hiatus and a 1986 joint tour by Allman and Betts — again in 1989, with Betts appearing on six studio albums and three official live recordings through 2000. During the ‘90s the group developed a younger following thanks to headline appearances on the jam band-oriented H.O.R.D.E. Festival.

However, the guitarist’s increasing unreliability – which included a brief ejection from the act following a 1993 scuffle with police at a tour stop — and mounting friction between him and a now clean and sober Allman resolved itself when the band informed Betts via fax that he would be replaced by another guitarist on the next tour. A suit filed by Betts was settled in arbitration, ending his tenure with the Allman Brothers Band. Betts declined an offer to rejoin the Allman Brothers Band for their 40th anniversary tour in 2009.

Betts reconciled with Allman before the singer-keyboardist’s death from liver cancer complications from in 2017, and attended his funeral.

The majority of Betts’ latter-day solo recordings were live affairs, and he continued to tour. He quietly retired in 2014, but returned to the road in 2017, saying he got “bored as hell.” In August 2018, he cancelled several concert dates after what was described publicly as a “mild stroke.”

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Dickey Betts: The Lost Allman Brother

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Leaning forward on a couch in his home on the west coast of Florida, two cans of Budweiser in front of him and Duane Allman’s Dobro on a stand nearby, Dickey Betts hesitates. “I don’t know if you want to write this or not,” he says. “But, shit, my career is over, so I don’t give a shit.”

The Allman Brothers Band were among rock’s hardest-living groups, and Betts more than lived up to his side of that deal – from taking swings at two cops in 1976 to instigating an Allmans band brawl 20 years later. Trashed hotel rooms and arrests are as much a part of his legend as signature songs like “Ramblin’ Man” and “Jessica.” With his horseshoe mustache and moody-cowboy image, Betts was so charismatic that Cameron Crowe based one of the central characters in Almost Famous – Stillwater guitarist Russell Hammond, played by Billy Crudup – on Betts. “Crudup’s look, and much more, is a tribute to Dickey,” Crowe says. “Dickey seemed like a quiet guy with a huge amount of soul, possible danger and playful recklessness behind his eyes. He was a huge presence.”

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Betts, 73, unamicably parted ways with the Allmans in 2000; today he considers himself retired. He last played live with his band three years ago, at a 300-capacity club in Mill Valley, California. Soon after, the death of his brother sent him into a depression, and his back was bothering him so much that he worried about relying on Vicodin to get through shows: “It’s a little bit of burnout, a little sour grapes, a little bit like a boxer who gives it up. It’s pretty tough, to tell you the truth. Everyone wishes they could be young forever. But I feel like I did my work, and I’m not gonna do anything that’s gonna top what I’m known for. So why don’t you just stay home?”

For all his excesses, Betts has outlived every founding member except drummer Jaimoe. Drummer Butch Trucks committed suicide in January, and Gregg Allman succumbed to various health issues, primarily liver cancer, in May. “You don’t know the fuckin’ half of it,” Betts says, solemnly, of recent events.

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Betts disagrees, saying he was kicked out thanks to “a whole clandestine business thing” that stemmed from the moment he asked manager Bert Holman for an audit of their finances. “Big fuckin’ mistake on my part,” Betts says. (Holman says he has no recollection of that request.) Whatever the case, Betts was awarded an undisclosed financial settlement and his walking papers. Betts neglects to discuss that period in detail (“I don’t want to say anything bad about Gregg”), but he speculates that without all the dysfunction, the Allmans might have gotten even more popular – as revered as the Grateful Dead. “After Jerry [Garcia] passed away, we were right in the position to move into that next-step thing,” he says. “But everyone was fucking my band up. Gregg wanted horns. And it was just so crazy.” 

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Duane Betts Says Playing Late Dad Dickey Betts' Music Has New Meaning Now: ‘Really Treasure It ‘Cause It's Precious'

Duane Betts says that he's been "holding up" since the death of his father , Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts , on April 18 at the age of 80. And while he and Allman Betts Band partner Devon Allman - son of the late Allman Brothers leader Gregg Allman - don't necessarily need more reason to pay tribute to their fathers' musical legacy, Betts tells Billboard that there's a different kind of charge in playing their songs now. 

"Now that he's gone it changes it a little more," acknowledges Betts, who was named after the late Duane Allman and played at times in his father's post-Allman Brothers band, Great Southern. "I think the spirit is always with me, whether I'm playing those particular songs or I'm playing my own songs. He had kinda been in poor health for awhile, so I was already playing for him and getting a lot of inspiration (from) thinking about him and what his legacy means to me, personally. I love playing that music and really treasure it 'cause it's precious. so it's nice to play a few of their tunes and mix 'em with our originals I do with the Allman Betts Band or a Duane Betts show. 

"And now that he's moved on to the next level it's kind of put the exclamation mark on that idea of showing love and appreciation for the music."

Allman Betts has been mixing a variety of Allman Brothers Band tunes into its current spring tour, including selections such as "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," "Blue Sky," "Jessica," "Melissa," "Midnight Rider," "Dreams," "Seven Turns" and "Sailin ‘Cross the Devil's Sea," as well as Allmans-popularized covers like Sonny Boy Williamson's "One Way Out" and Blind Willie McTell's "Statesboro Blues."

"That's been rotating; it depends on what night it is, what you'll hear," Betts explains. "Y'know, I play the way I play; when I'd ask my dad, ‘Do I sound too much like you?' he would say, ‘Well, you like the same food as me. You walk like me. You cough like me. You look like me. So why are you trying to not be you? Just be you and don't worry about it.'"

Allman Betts' tour runs through June 9 and is the band's first since the 2023 death of drummer R. Scott Bryan, which brought Roy Orbison's youngest son Alex "Orbi" Orbison - who played in two previous bands with Betts - into the lineup. (The group also includes another Allman Brothers progeny, bassist Berry Duane Oakley.) Betts says the septet has made a conscious effort to dig deep into its two album catalog for this trek. 

"We're really enjoying switching up the set list quite a bit and throwing different things in there we haven't played in awhile, so it's been really fun," he notes. "We've done songs off our records we haven't played in years, 'cause we haven't really been on tour."

Another Allman Betts Band album - a follow-up to 2020's Bless Your Heart - is another matter, however. 

"We haven't really gotten that far," says Betts, who released a solo album, Wild & Precious Life , last July. "I think right now we're just keeping it as this, a live thing. We're really grateful to be out there on the road, and being all together again is really fun. We have a few more shows later in the summer, and we're just having a great time on tour and not thinking about anything else yet."

The band's next date is a show Thursday night (May 30) at The Fillmore in Detroit; click here to see their summer tour schedule.

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The group is led by Devon Allman, son of the late Gregg Allman, and Duane Betts, whose father, Allman Brothers Band co-founder Dickey Betts, passed away on April 18. The group also includes bassist Berry Duane Oakley, whose namesake father did the same in the Allman Brothers, and recently added Alex “Orbi” Orbison, son of the late Roy Orbison, on drums.

That’s a lot of musical history, which Allman Betts pays homage to with a few songs at each of its shows. But the group is just as if not more interested in its own music; Allman Betts has released two studio albums of its own — “Down to the River” in 2019 and “Bless Your Heart” the following year — while Allman and Betts also have solo careers. Like their fathers, they’re following a road that goes on forever, and wouldn’t have it any other ways.

* Betts, 46, says he’s “holding up” since his dad’s death and acknowledges that now having both of their fathers gone gives he and Allman a greater sense of mission in what they do. “It is really important to me to play the music and show respect to their music, because it really is something precious. Now that he’s gone it changes it a little more. He had kinda been in poor health for awhile, so I was already playing for him and getting a lot of inspiration thinking about him and what his legacy means to me, personally. So now that he’s moved on to the next level it just kind of puts the exclamation mark on that idea that this is precious and showing love and appreciation for the music.”

* After drummer R. Scott Bryan passed away in December, Allman Betts turned to Orbison, Roy Orbison’s youngest son, who Betts had played with during the 90s in the band Backbone69. “He’s been a friend of ours for many years. I’ve actually be in in two bands with Alex, so we go way back. He’s a great drummer and a great fit. I can’t think of anyone who’d be better with us than him.”

* Betts says he’s not sure when Allman Betts will work on a third album. “We haven’t really gotten that far. I think right now we’re just keeping it as this, a live thing. We’re really grateful to be out there on the road, and being all together again is really fun. We have a few more shows later in the summer, and we’re just having a great time on tour.”

* Betts released a solo album, “Wild & Precious Life,” last July, which he says he’s still focused on promoting. The album includes guest appearances by Marcus King, Nicki Bluhm and Derek Trucks and was partly inspired by the latter. “I was at a birthday party down in the (Florida) keys and Derek and Susan (Tedeschi, Trucks’ wife) were there. I told them I was thinking about doing a solo record and they said, ‘You should come do it at our studio’ and Derek said, ‘and I want to play on it’ and then it went from there. It was a really fun process and I’m really proud of it and people really like it.”

The Allman Betts Band performs Thursday, May 30 at the Fillmore Detroit, 2115 Woodward Ave. Doors at 7 p.m. 313-961-5451 or thefillmoredetroit.com.

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1984 converted to the S-300PT (SA-10) with three independent battalions:

• 1st independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Bessonovo, Moscow Oblast) - 55 09 34N, 38 22 26E
• 2nd independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion and HQ (Stepanshchino, Moscow Oblast) - 55 15 31N, 38 32 23E
• 3rd independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Shcherbovo, Moscow Oblast) - 55 22 32N, 38 43 33E

Disbanded 1.5.98.

Subordination:

• 1st Special Air Defence Corps , 1953 - 1.6.88
• 86th Air Defence Division , 1.6.88 - 1.10.94
• 86th Air Defence Brigade , 1.10.94 - 1.10.95
• 86th Air Defence Division , 1.10.95 - 1.5.98

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Savvino-storozhevsky monastery and museum.

Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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