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From where can any respectable music writer possibly start describing the career of a giant of American music like Gregg Allman in the best possible way?
 
The former singer, keyboardist and chief songwriter of a cult Rock Band like the Allman Brothers Band, who sadly passed away in 2017, has left such an inestimable sonic patrimony to the whole music world, both as a band member of the A.B.B. and as a solo artist, throughout the 5 decades of Allman’s glorious career, that calling him one of the greatest American music artists of this century is not at all an obvious or gratuitous compliment.
 

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An artist can never foresee what the next step in his/her career is going to be, because very often and inevitably, through time, plans do change, because life changes around us.

When American cult Rock Band The Airborne Toxic Event released their last studio album called Hollywood Park, back in 2020, a record where the band's chief songwriter and frontman Mikel Jollett delved heavily on the early stages of his life and in particular, about his relationship with Jollett's father, an ex con man and ex heroin addict, with some of the songs written from the perspective of Jollett's father, it would have perhaps been an easy decision to write more about this difficult family dynamic on a follow-up record, given the consensus received from fans and press, when Hollywood Park got released.

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It's always challenging to review a new record, no matter the genres, where an artist surrounds him/herself by an array of Special Guests, playing literally on each and every song of said record.

While the attraction, for some music lovers and for a new body of work like the one mentioned above, may come from big names taking part to the record itself, it's when the album features the real core of the artist in question the factor that really elevates the overall quality of the finished product.

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