upset, but I also know that Gregg felt like it was the right thing to do. Of course ,they did get a Grammy nomination for Blues Album of the Year! It's a great record, Gregg sings amazing on it. It all worked out in the end, but I know that the Low Country thing didn't sit well with Gregg because he felt like it was more T-Bone’s album than it was his album. That's no slight to T-Bone or to Gregg, it's just that way sometimes with collaboration. Also, T-Bone is such a hot pro- ducer that he didn't really have the time to spend with Gregg to develop a relationship with him. Gregg was very dependent on having time with someone to develop, so that he could feel good and bring his A game, and to T-Bone’s credit, considering that they did the whole thing in very little time with Gregg uncomfortable with the sit- uation. T-Bone did a great job with it. But Gregg was always anxious to move on from that record
Chank Middleton: When every evening, we got on the bus, working that CD, the band never did talk about it. I could understand why. They weren’t part of it. When the [Allman] Brothers used to go in the studio to record, every time they got together after the sessions, they were talking about it. But Gregg ’s band didn't do it because they weren’t on the CD. I told Gregg, “if this band is good enough to play behind you, they’re good enough to record.” He always said, “you don’t work for me, we all work together,” that was his philosophy. When the other guys are just part of your band, that kind of takes away from them. Especially good musicians. They want to be a total part of the thing and not just a piece of thing.
Scott Sharrard: Back to Macon Live was never even supposed to happen, because that concert recording was a complete afterthought by the label. The label put all this time and energy into doing the All My Friends Gregg Allman tribute concert, DVD and album. That was the week be- fore our one-off show in Macon. We had a few nights booked in Macon, but they only sent somebody to record the show on one night. There were no rehearsals except for day of show. We had been off; they had sent us home from a tour for a week so Gregg could go record the All
My Friends tribute with Don Was and all the guests. We came back from our vacation week off and flew in to Macon, and to make a record
Gregg andChank.
without any preparation for it… we were thrown in the deep end. I tell you what, man, I am so proud of the band, and especially Gregg on that record, because that record is one night, one take, straight to the board. I have to give our front of house engineer Earl McCoy credit be- cause Earl, who mixed the show, was a huge help making sure that that recording got done prop- erly. I listen to it now and I feel that was one of the best nights we ever had in the history of the band. Gregg’s voice is phenomenal on that record. He was in the best health of the entire time I worked with him, you can hear the strength in his voice on that record.
Brennan Carley: Are there any more like that? Scott Sharrard: I've actually been tapped re- cently to do some Gregg Allman Band live recordings from our last few years. Hopefully we'll get that project off the ground. I hope it all
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