So long Dickey, thanks for all the music...

[Mugs914]

Dickey Betts passed away today. If the name doesn't ring a bell his music sure will. He was best known as guitarist and front man with the Allman Brothers band...





He was one of my all-time favorite pickers and I must admit that the news of his passing made my eyes leak a little bit...

 

[jsdemar]

Long live his music!

 

[cwbullet]

RIP - Great music!

 

[jkovac]

Wow bummer, hadn’t heard.

 

[tim cubbedge]

https://apple.news/A9Q70h4pxShK5c5oxhZRwvw

 

[stealth6]

"..............thanks for all the music".

Indeed. One of the all-time greats. And very much deserving of whatever thanks we can give him.
(I think I've got something in my eye too).

s6

 

[cls]

Dicky Betts was my #1 inspiration when I started playing guitar.

 

[tsmith1315]

L-R: Jaimoe, Berry Oakley, Duane, Butch Trucks, Gregg, Dickey



The Allman Bros went much deeper than the songs you'd hear on the radio, with strong jazz and blues influence, country and even gospel. Though Duane was the anointed leader, Dickey wrote some of their best. These are some of his:





This was written as an instrumental, and the lyrics were ad libbed during recording. It's what they felt.




RIP, Dickey.

 

[Mugs914]

I would also recommend The Dickey Betts Band and Great Southern... Both did a lot of his Allman Brothers stuff, but also a bunch of originals.

 

[Tech 68]

https://gazette.gibson.com/news/all...-4460-a39e-54e676a754eb&utm_campaign=gibson25

 

[samb]

RIP
Here's my favorite:

 

[tsmith1315]

“People down in Georgia come from near and far
To hear Richard Betts picking on that red guitar”

- Charlie Daniels

Truth.

 

[cerving]

One of the few guitarists that you can recognize immediately by their sound. He'll be missed, for sure.