{"id":13132,"date":"2024-04-18T21:45:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T21:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13132"},"modified":"2024-04-20T21:54:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T21:54:16","slug":"dicky-betts-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/04\/18\/dicky-betts-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickey Betts Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/news\/dickey-betts-dead-allman-brothers-guitarist-1235975041\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Variety<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"section-heading\">Dickey Betts, Allman Brothers Guitarist, Dies at 80<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/author\/christopher-morris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chris Morris<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Guitar Greats - Jessica - Dickey Betts - 11\/12\/1984 - Capitol Theatre\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/llBsswEfUsA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dickey Betts, whose country-inflected songwriting and blazing, lyrical guitar work opposite Duane Allman in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/allman-brothers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Allman Brothers<\/a>\u00a0Band helped define the Southern rock genre of the \u201860s and \u201870s, died Thursday in Osprey, Fla. He was 80.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His family posted a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C56GswQuAKR\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement on Instagram<\/a>, writing, \u201cIt is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that the Betts family announce the peaceful passing of Forrest Richard \u2018Dickey\u2019 Betts (December 12, 1943 \u2013 April 18, 2024) at the age of 80 years old. The legendary performer, songwriter, bandleader and family patriarch passed away earlier today at his home in Osprey, FL., surrounded by his family. Dickey was larger than life, and his loss will be felt world-wide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1969, Betts and bassist Berry Oakley of the Florida band the Second Coming joined members of two other Sunshine State groups \u2014 guitarist Duane Allman and his keyboard-playing brother Gregg of the Hour Glass and drummer Butch Trucks of the 31st of February \u2013 and Mississippi-born drummer Jai Johanny \u201cJaimoe\u201d Johanson in a new unit that ultimately based itself in Macon, Ga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riding a powerful twin-guitar sound that fused rock, blues and country, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/allman-brothers-band\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Allman Brothers Band<\/a>\u00a0inspired a host of like-minded groups throughout the South, many of which would find a home at Capricorn Records, the custom imprint established by the Allmans\u2019 manager Phil Walden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/news\/dickey-betts-dead-allman-brothers-guitarist-1235975041\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Variety<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Variety Dickey Betts, Allman Brothers Guitarist, Dies at 80 By\u00a0Chris Morris Dickey Betts, whose country-inflected songwriting and blazing, lyrical guitar work opposite Duane Allman in the\u00a0Allman Brothers\u00a0Band helped define the Southern rock genre of the \u201860s and \u201870s, died Thursday in Osprey, Fla. He was 80. His family posted a\u00a0statement on Instagram, writing, \u201cIt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}