City Winery Presents Brothers & Sisters - A Celebration Of The Allman Brothers Band
New York Times bestselling author Alan Paul provides an in-depth narrative look at the Allman Brothers' most successful album and a portrait of an era in rock and roll and American history.
City Winery Atlanta presents a book release celebration for New York Times best-selling author Alan Paul's "Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Album that Defined the '70s."
The event will include a talk about President Jimmy Carter's relationship with the band, an author Q&A and book signing, and a full musical performance featuring End of the Line, Tommy Talton, Vaylor Trucks, and more.
A Cappella Books will have copies of "Brothers and Sisters" available for purchase at the event. You can also pre-order a copy via the link below.
About the Book
The Allman Brothers Band's Brothers and Sisters was not only the band's best-selling album, at over seven million copies sold, but it was also a powerfully influential release, both musically and culturally, one whose influence continues to be profoundly felt.
Celebrating the album's 50th anniversary, "Brothers and Sisters," the book delves into the making of the album, while also presenting a broader cultural history of the era, based on first-person interviews, historical documents, and deep research.
"Brothers and Sisters" traces the making of the template-shaping record alongside the story of how the Allman Brothers came to the rescue of a flailing Jimmy Carter presidential campaign and helped get the former governor of Georgia elected president; how Gregg Allman's marriage to Cher was an early harbinger of an emerging celebrity media culture; and how the band's success led to internal fissures. The book also examines the Allman Brothers' relationship with the Grateful Dead—including the most in-depth reporting ever on the Jam at Watkins Glen, the largest rock festival ever—and describes how they inspired bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, helping create the Southern Rock genre.
With exclusive access to hundreds of hours of never-before-heard interviews with every major player, including Dickey Betts and Gregg Allman, conducted by ABB archivist, photographer, and "Tour Mystic" Kirk West, "Brothers and Sisters" is an in-depth, honest assessments of the band's career, history, and highs and lows.
About the Author
Alan Paul is the author of the New York Times bestseller "One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band," the definitive book on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band, and "Texas Flood: the Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan." The latter has been optioned and is being developed for both documentary and feature films. His first book, "Big in China," is about his experiences raising an American family, forming a band, and becoming an unlikely rock star in Beijing. He also founded Friends of the Brothers, the premier celebration of the music of the Allman Brothers Band, featuring members of the Dickey Betts, Jaimoe and Gregg Allman bands. He is a regular guest on radio shows and a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Guitar World, and other publications. He lives in New Jersey.
