Scott Sharrard and Chank Middleton Discuss the Gregg Allman Band and Shows in Memory of Gregg at City Winery
SCOTT & CHANK
by Brennan Carley Two years after the death of Gregg All-
man, the Gregg Allman Band played two com- memorative shows at City Winery in New York City. The shows, June 24 and 25, featured Scott Sharrard, longtime lead guitarist and musical di- rector of the Gregg Allman Band, and the rest of the Gregg Allman Band (Brett Bass on bass gui- tar; the horn section of Jay Collins, Art Edmais- ton, and Marc Franklin; Peter Levin on keyboards; Steve Potts and Bobby Allende play- ing drums and percussion.) The June 24 show featured special guests Luther Dickinson, James Maddock, Quinn Sullivan, Slam Allen, Deva Mahal and more, while the June 25 show in- cluded Tash Neal, Alan Paul, Deva Mahal, Jack- son Kincheloe, Junior Mack, and other guests. Brennan Carley caught up for an in-depth inter- view Scott Sharrard and Chank Middleton, Gregg ’s best friend for over 50 years, to discuss the shows and the Gregg Allman Band.
Brennan Carley: You’ve got two shows coming up at City Winery with the Gregg Allman Band, tell us about those shows. Scott Sharrard: We're playing the Southern Blood album June 25th. We're also offering a VIP package where people can see Alan Paul in- terview the Gregg Allman Band about the mak- ing of the Southern Blood album. That's going to be one night. Monday night June 24th, the night that sold out, we're playing Gregg Allman Live: Back to Macon front to back with guests. The point of the run and having the two nights is we're playing the two albums that we recorded with Gregg in the last decade of his life.
Brennan Carley: Let’s start there. Gregg
recorded Low Country Blues with T-Bone Burnett’s band but then he used his tour- ing band for Southern Blood and for the Live: Back to Macon album. Scott Sharrard: When Low Country Blues came
Scott Sharrard
up as an idea, I had only been in the band about a year and a half. I hadn't assumed my duties yet as the musical director for the band. Gregg and I were just starting to really get to know each other. Gregg was not the quickest person to warm up to people. I think rightfully, he was very protective of his privacy, even with musi- cians that he loved in his band. T-Bone Burnett was tapped to produce the record. I'm not sure how that came about. Gregg told T-Bone I want to bring my band. But you know T-Bone has a sound, he has musicians he likes to use, and they're great musicians, he just did not want to use Gregg’s band. I know that Gregg was really
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