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Allman Brothers Band: Dickey Betts
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Allman quickly formed the Gregg Allman Band with the Toler brothers in 1982 and began touring small venues and clubs. Betts, Leavell, Trucks and Goldflies formed the band Betts Hall Leavell Trucks (BHLT). Neither garnered attention from any record labels. BHLT would dissolve two years later.
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There’s no question that the loss of Dickey Betts was a big one for the Allman Brothers Band. For decades, his Southern, country twang (Blue Sky) and jazzy instrumentals (In Memory of Elizabeth Reed) poked through Gregg Allman’s driving blues-rock to add a sunny counterpoint that was absolutely brilliant. In recent years... Betts’ ability to perform was hampered by his addictions, and thus he was tossed from the group. Not surprisingly, subsequent tours found the Allman Brothers Band becoming a tad one-dimensional as each hardcore blues tune blurred into the next with minimal diversity.
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The rest of this is the ordinary Allman Brothers concert, meaning good songs but nothing visually to offer. Most of it solid, hard-driving rock and blues with some excellent guitar playing by Dickie Betts. However, since so much of the music is the same, it gets to be too much after awhile. A good slow, bluesy-type number in the middle would have improved this tape a lot.
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