money, like when he made records in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. He thought he was gonna live forever, he thought he was gonna have money forever. They would take their time and make records. If you could have done a record like that with him, you would have gotten a few more Gregg Allman originals. That would have been pretty spectacular. But that would have meant that we would have had to take our band, and put us all in a house for a year. That's what would have to happen, because that's how Gregg works best. That's how the Beatles and Led Zeppelin worked best. The Band was another one that worked like that. If I could change history, I would have done that with the band, instead of instead of going through this whole rush process and just doing the cover songs, because we have to get the record done and because we're run- ning out of time, because he's going to pass away. Or Don is gonna get busy with the Stones or something, we have to go back on the road, because we have to pay the bills. If that environ- ment hadn't existed, of death and money being a problem, I think we could have turned out a much more prolific record. I don't know if it would have been more historic or would have been better, but it would have been more artisti- cally prolific for him and for the band. We'd have time, but we had no time. We did the best we could.
Brennan Carley: Despite that, it's a great record, certainly one of the best, which is unusual because a lot of artists decline as they progress in their musical careers. Southern Blood holds up. Scott Sharrard: There were some people who thought he's just out there doing it because he
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has to do it, he’s not at 100%. Personally, even when he slowed down, I never heard him sing or play a note that he didn't feel into the ground through his feet. There was never a moment when this man phoned it in musically, it just never happened. What would music life be with- out Gregg Allman? I don't want to think about that. He was great until I was with him on his last show in Atlanta on the anniversary of his brother’s death. It was the same day that Duane died on that motorcycle. It was something else. The last half of the show got kind of rough when he started to run out of wind, but the first four or five songs were some of the best singing I've ever heard in my life. You can find it online, check out Stormy Monday from that show.
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Brennan Carley: What's your favorite Gregg song to play now? Scott Sharrard: “Win, Lose or Draw.” That record is an uneven album for them, but that song, in my opinion is a masterpiece of songwrit- ing. That song could have been written by John Prine or Bob Dylan or any of those guys that Gregg idolized so much. I was trying to get him to record it. He hadn’t played it since ‘77 or
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