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"Ramblin' Man" is a song by American rock band the Allman Brothers Band, released in August 1973 as the lead single from the group's fourth studio album, Brothers and Sisters (1973). Written and sung by the band's guitarist, Dickey Betts , it was inspired by a 1951 song of the same name by Hank Williams .
[32] In Creem, Robert Christgau said "Gregg Allman is a predictable singer who never has an unpredictable lyric to work with anyway, and the jams do roll on, but at their best—"Ramblin' Man," a miraculous revitalization of rock's weariest conceit—they just may be the best."
Dickey Betts, who wrote and sang the Allman Brothers Band’s No. 1 hit "Ramblin' Man," died at his home in south Sarasota County on Thursday, April 18 at the age of 80 years old.
The “Ramblin’ Man” of the Allman Brothers was a Florida man, too. Dickey Betts, a founding member and a lead guitarist of the trailblazing Southern rock group he formed with brothers Gregg ...
A co-founder of the band when it formed in 1969, he was central to the group's greatest commercial success in the mid-1970s, and was the writer and vocalist on the Allmans' hit single "Ramblin' Man". The Allman Brothers Band broke up and re-formed twice, always with Betts in the lineup, until he left the band in 2000.
Dickey Betts, who died Thursday at age 80, really was born a ramblin’ man. He left home at 16 to join the circus and became a renowned guitarist touring the world with the Allman Brothers Band.
The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969. [3] Its founding members were brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar, lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals), Berry Oakley (bass), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).
Betts was the writer and singer on the Allmans Brothers Band’s hit single “Ramblin’ Man.” ... which is dedicated to the Allman Brothers. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.