In celebration of the 40th anniversary of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", DickeyBetts.com. is helping to promote a very special online contest...and YOU are invited to participate! If you are at all musically inclined, a part of a band, or a multi-platinum selling artist, we want to see you and your bandmates hit us with your best rendition of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed". You have until October 27 to rehearse, fine-tune, record, and submit your performance. At that time, voting will be opened up to the public AND a special panel of judges from the Georgia Allman Brothers Band Association. The results will be announced on November 19, 2010. And, while the contest is primarily for fun and bragging rights, there may be a little extra something in it for the winners, courtesy of DickeyBetts.com. The full contest details have been posted here, so what are you waiting for? Get your band together and let's go!!
New videos from the NYC show!
Check out these brand new videos from Dickey's birthday show in New York City...
Andy Aledort & the Groove Kings - Live at North Star 2009
The new CD is here! ANDY ALEDORT & THE GROOVE KINGS – LIVE AT NORTH STAR 2009 is a sprawling, 70+ minute live document of intense improvisation and band interaction. "Live at North Star 2009" is a vivid representation of the band—Andy Aledort (gtr., voc), Mike DiMeo (kybd., voc.), Dennis Metzler (bass), and Vito Luizzi and Richard Rosch (drums)--and offers some smoldering blues, blues/rock and intricate original material.
Recorded at one of the band’s regular haunts, the beautiful club/restaurant NORTH STAR located in Pound Ridge, NY, "LIVE AT NORTH STAR 2009" is a great example of the kind of insanity the band ventures into at every gig. The album includes covers of such classic blues tunes as Freddie King’s “Big Leg Woman,” Ray Charles’ “I Don’t Need No Doctor,” B.B. King’s “Gambler’s Blues,” Albert King’s “Wrapped Up in Love Again,” Albert Collins’ “Bending Like a Willow Tree,” and Little Walter’s “Last Night,” plus two original compositions, “Right by Your Side” and “Do You Have a Sister.”
In New York City, a place where Dickey Betts had had many great achievements, he played what will possibly become his last touring date on December 12, his 66th birthday.
"I’m not retiring from playing. I’m sure there will be some great special events that I’ll be at in the future. But for now, I look forward to waking up tomorrow with nothing on my schedule."
After more than 40 years of constant touring it’s time for a well deserved break. Stay tuned for updates on the Great Southern Band members and their associated projects, as well as updates on Dickey himself.
Happy Holidays to all…………………
Dickey jamming with Charlie Daniels
Check out Dickey jamming with Charlie Daniels at the Musician's Hall of Fame induction ceremony, held on October 14 in Nashville, TN.
Follow Dickey Betts and Great Southern all over the web!
You can now keep tabs on Dickey Betts and Great Southern all over the web! Whether it be FaceBook, MySpace, or our brand new Twitter page (or all of the above!), we have all of your favorite networking sites covered!
New video from the archives!
Dickey Betts and Great Southern perform "Ramblin' Man" in Sioux Falls, SD on July 16, 2004!
Dickey Betts and Great Southern LIVE at Saturday in the Park
We have a new video today...Dickey Betts and Great Southern rock out at Saturday in the Park in Sioux City, Iowa.
Great Southern's Pedro Arevalo and Duane Betts take center stage and perform an electric/acoustic version of the classic song C. C. Rider at the Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom in Denver, CO.
Dickey Betts and Great Southern, Then and Now!
For a nice little blast from the past as well as a blast from the present, check out Dickey Betts and Great Southern rocking out Ramblin' Man in Essen Germany from March, 1978, and then take a look at the band's current lineup knocking out Statesboro Blues in Bonn, Germany this past July...
Dickey Betts and Great Southern jamming at the State Theatre
Check out Dickey Betts and Great Southern jamming at the State Theatre this past April!
Dickey Betts and Great Southern LIVE on Last Call
From the vault, check out this collection of clips from Dickey Betts and Great Southern sitting in as the house band on Last Call in July, 2005.
Seven Turns
Seven Turns by the Allman Brothers Band
Dickey Betts and Great Southern LIVE at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Check out Dickey Betts and Great Southern performing Ramblin' Man LIVE at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
and Museum in Cleveland, OH! If you want to see more, check out the Eagle Rock DVD at Amazon.com!
Pedro Arevalo & Friends Too
Pedro Arevalo & Friends Too
Featuring: Dickey Betts & Great Southern, Garrett Dawson, Jack Kirkner of Devon Allman's Honeytribe, Berry Oakley Jr., The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's own Jimmy Fadden, T.C. Carr, The Lotus Fire, Thorson Moore, Howlin' Bob Feberts, Doc Burton, mi Hermanito El Jefe y mi papa "Acoustic Pete Arevalo" and many many more will see the light of day on March 5th.
The new record will be available at Great Southern's first show in Tarrytown, NY. Please come and buy several copies!
This new record features the unreleased Dickey Betts Composition Keep On Rollin' On, a few classics you might recognize, as well as nine new original compositions from Great Southern's own Pedro Arevalo, including My Baby Gone which you may have heard performed Dickey Betts and Great Southern's 2008 tour.
For ordering information please check out Pedro Arevalo & Friends and click the MERCH link.
If you liked "& Friend" I think you'll really dig where we've gone with "& Friends Too" - Pedro
Stop by and say High
Booking Dickey Betts & Great Southern
Dickey Betts & Great Southern booking contact: Steve Schenck at Paradise Artists, (212) 879-5900
Dickey Betts & Great Southern management contact: David Spero, (216) 381-5544.
Hats off to Jeff Koch for designing this terrific poster for Dickey Betts & Great Southern's March 7 gig at Mr. Small's Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA!
“Ramblin’ Man” and “Blue Sky” both were written in the big house in Macon, Georgia and we were all living together there. Well, let’s see we all lived together there periodically... a few of us did have apartments but we would gather there. I wrote “Blue Sky” in the living room of that house and I wrote “Ramblin’ Man” in the kitchen. And yeah, I remember those like it was last week when I wrote ’em. “Ramblin’ Man” - I really didn't think it was a tune that we would want to record - I thought it was probably too country and Johnny Sandlin was producing Brothers and Sisters at the time. He said, “We need one more song” and I said, “Well, I got this tune. It’s a bit country, but...” And I played it and everybody in the band went, “God! Where’s that been?” (laughs) You know, everybody put their part to it and it turned out to be a big hit single. You know we didn’t really go for big hit singles. We were more album oriented back then.
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The new CD is here! ANDY ALEDORT & THE GROOVE KINGS – LIVE AT NORTH STAR 2009 is a sprawling, 70+ minute live document of intense improvisation and band interaction. "Live at North Star 2009" is a vivid representation of the band—Andy Aledort (gtr., voc), Mike DiMeo (kybd., voc.), Dennis Metzler (bass), and Vito Luizzi and Richard Rosch (drums)--and offers some smoldering blues, blues/rock and intricate original material.
Pedro Arevalo & Friends Too
