BOOKS
The Allman Brothers Band Classic Memorabilia 1969 - 76 by Willie Perkins and Jack Weston (Mercer University Press)
The Allman Broth- ers Band is my all-
time favorite group, and I have collected all of their albums and singles over the years, along with memorabilia that includes stage passes, posters, magazines, books and many other items. My favorite is a mint copy of At Fill- more East with the pink Capricorn label, per- sonally signed by Gregg Allman, and nicely framed to show the cover and one of the ac- tual records. When I first heard that Willie and Jack
were doing this book, I felt that excitement of nostalgia rush through me like I hadn't expe- rienced in quite some time. Seeing the book, I can truly say that it is everything I had hoped for and more. This book is loaded with color and black
and white photos of the rarest of items, like Duane, Dickey and Berry’s guitars, amps, clothing, stage passes, t-shirts (including the first ever produced for the band), posters and handbills, rare photos, documents, cancelled checks signed by the band, management and more, with descriptions and stories from the authors make this a Big House Museum in book form. It's a much welcome addition to my own ABB collection. None other than Galadrielle Allman wrote the foreword for this beautiful volume, a book
every Allman Brothers Band fan will want to own. The road truly does go on forever.
-Michael Buffalo Smith
After The Meltdown The Collected Poems of John Charles Griffin (Snake Nation Press)
Over the years, I have
found myself drawn to a pretty wide variety of
poets, from Lord Byron to John Keats, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Maya Angelou, Sonja Sanchez, and Saul Williams. Each had their own style, rhythm and subject matter reflec- tive of their times and the area in which they lived. Now I have added another poet to my list of favorites, a man I have known for years who hails from Macon, Georgia. A man that I never knew was a poet. I knew John Griffin as a concert promoter,
and as someone associated with The Allman Brothers Band Big House Museum. I also knew him as a top-notch photographer, and after a gig at 550 Blues in Macon that found him sitting in with my band, I learned he is also a fine musician. John is kind of a renais- sance man, a man of many talents with his heart in the arts. After the Meltdown is a 98 page book filled
with many of John’s best poems and photo- graphs. His subject matter is such that any- one who grew up in the south is going to love it, which is not to say that a man in Long Is- land or a lady in Seattle can’t enjoy them equally. The poems are universal, but due to his imagery, drawn from life as a member of
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