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Gregg has gone on to reunite with his brother Duane who died in October of 1971
Gregg Allman, the singer, musician and songwriter who played an essential role in the invention of Southern rock, has died at the age of 69. Allman "passed away peacefully at his home in Savannah, Georgia," a statement on the singer's website read Saturday.
Although Allman claimed the term was redundant, the singer-keyboardist helped create the first great "Southern-rock" group as co-founder of the legendary The Allman Brothers Band. alongside his older brother, famed guitarist Duane Allman. The Allmans fused country blues with San Francisco-style extended improvisation, with their sound creating a template for countless subsequent jam bands. Gregg Allman was blessed with one of blues-rock's great growling voices and, along with his Hammond B-3 organ playing (beholden to Booker T. Jones), had a deep emotional power.
"When it's all said and done, I'll go to my grave and my brother will greet me saying, 'Nice work, little brother – you did all right,'" Allman wrote in the last lines of My Cross to Bear. "I must have said this a million times, but if I died today, I've had me a blast. I wouldn't trade [my life] for nobody's, but I don't know if I'd do it again. If somebody offered me a second round, I think I'd have to pass on it."
(Rolling Stone)
He was 69 years old.