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Dickey Betts, Allman Brothers Guitarist, Dies at 80
Dickey Betts, guitarist for the Allman Brothers, died Thursday at 80, his family announced.
Betts’ service with the Allman Brothers Band – which over time would come to include guitarists Dan Toler and Warren Haynes, both members of his solo outfits – proved to be long, discontinuous and frequently tumultuous. Duane Allman’s sudden death just six months after the live album’s release left the band’s future briefly in doubt, but the surviving members unanimously decided to carry on as a five-piece, with Betts initially taking on de facto leadership. Just three months after the release of its massive hit “Brothers and Sisters” – which included “Ramblin’ Man” and the memorable Betts instrumental “Jessica,” named after the guitarist’s daughter — bassist Oakley was killed in a motorcycle crash in Macon, just blocks from the site of the accident that took Duane Allman’s life.
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