Allman Betts Band, the rock-jam group with the progeny of the Allman Brothers Band, Devon Allman and Duane Betts, covered their parents’ “Midnight Rider” during their performance of “Saturday Sessions” in CBS this morning.
Performing from the Solana Beach stage, California’s Belly Up venue, the group, which also features Berry Duane Oakley, son of Allmans bassist Berry Oakley, played a couple of songs from their upcoming LP. Blessed be your heart, first single “Magnolia Road” and his last cut “Pale Horse Rider”.
“‘Pale Horse Rider’ was a lot of fun to write,” Devon Allman, son of Gregg Allmanrecently said Rolling Stone. “Duane [Betts] I had this vertigo-inducing, almost melodic, descending pattern that was so unique. Once I started the lyric about a man who feels so lost and isolated with the world to get him out, the story just wrote itself. The Wild West seemed like the perfect setting to tell the story. ”
Blessed be your heart, the second album of the Allman Betts Band and the follow-up of 2019 Going down to the river, arrives on August 28.
In addition to the Allman Betts Band performance, CBS this morning He also wrote an article about the rebirth of Capricorn Records, the label that specialized in southern rock and released the Allman Brothers Band’s classic LPs:
