DEVON ALLMAN THE KUDZOO INTERVIEW
by Michael Buffalo Smith
Devon Allman grew up in the shadow of a musical giant, his father, Gregg Allman, but he never, ever tried to ride Gregg’s coat tails. Devon has always been his own man, his own artist, with his own style and swagger. Now, with a new album called Ride or Die debuting at number one on the Billboard and iTunes blues charts, this self made man is taking his music to a whole new level. We caught up with Devon during his brief down time be- tween his hugely successful European Tour, and the tour now underway with Rusted Root, to get the skinny on his hot new record, and see what he’;s been up too lately.
How’s life been treating you. Just great
man.Thank you for doing this.
My pleasure. Your new album, Ride or Die is doing extremely well, debuting at number one on the Billboard and iTunes blues
charts.Congratulations on that. Thanks man. I’m jazzed. it’s always nice to put a fresh new record out there.
Well it’s a honey. It kind caught me off guard when everyone started labeling you as a blues artist. Do you consider yourself a blues man? Well, specifically, probably no. I mean, I do some blues stuff in my life show. I think with the recording career it gets into the blues cat- egory because its bluesy guitar playing and
soulful singing. So it’s blues in the manner of like, taking the blues and going somewhere else with it.Of course that’s what Hendrix did for us - and the Rolling Stones did for us. A blues based sound. instead of typical 4/5 blues. So I think we can all coexist under this umbrella because it’s all blues based.
The first single. “Say Your Prayers,” is a very good song. Oddly enough the first time I heard it wast this past week- end when the hurricane was plummet- ing the coast. They lyrics speak of hunkering down and weathering the storm, and it can be taken literally. But I have a feeling you wrote it as a
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