Gregg Allman

Released: September 8, 2017

Songwriter: Bob Dylan

I've just reached a place
Where the willow don't bend
There's not much more to be said
It's the top of the end
I'm going
I'm going
I'm gone

I'm closing the book
On the pages and the text
And I don't really care
What happens next
I'm just going
Yes, I'm going
I'm gone

I been hanging on threads
Playing it straight
Now I've just got to cut loose
Before it gets too late
So I'm going
Yes, I'm going
I'm gone
So gone

Grandma said, "Boy, follow your heart
You'll be fine at the end of the line
All that's gold doesn't shine
Don't you and your own true love ever part"

I been walking down the road
Living on the edge
Now I've just got to go
Before I reach to the ledge
I'm going
I'm just going
I'm gone
So gone

Yes I'm going
I'm going
I'm gone

Yes I'm going
I'm going
I'm gone
So gone

Yes I'm going
I'm going
I'm gone
So gone

Gregg Allman was dragged at the last minute into his brother Duane’s band, which therefore became The Allman Brothers Band. But it turned out to be a better idea than most nepotism, as he became their primary songwriter, illustrated by how many other acts covered his tunes. Imitation is, after all, the sincerest form of flattery.

Singer and Keyboardist Gregg penned many of the band’s most popular songs, including Midnight Rider, Whipping Post, and what he describes as the first real song he wrote, Melissa. He also had some last-minute hits decades later, like his own cover of the song I’m No Angel, which reached #1 on the US rock charts in 1987, almost twenty years after his first hit.

From the album

Southern Blood (2017)

Gregg Allman popular songs

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