I am launching a new series of original, exclusive video interviews for Low, Down and Dirty subscribers with drummer Joey Russo. I was blown away by his performances with The Brothers, as he brought a vivid sense of joy to the stage and played with tremendous energy and skill. I thought he perfectly navigated that tricky line of being himself and playing Butch’s parts as originally composed.
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The paperback edition of my fourth book, Brothers and Sisters: the Allman Brothers Band and The Album That Defined The 70s, was recently released by St. Martin’s Press. It was the third consecutive one to debut in the New York Times Non-Fiction Hardcover Bestsellers List, following Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan and One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band. My first book, Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues and Becoming a Star in Beijing, about my experiences raising a family in Beijing and touring China with a popular original blues band, was optioned for a movie by Ivan Reitman’s Montecito Productions. I am also a guitarist and singer with two bands, Big in China and Friends of the Brothers, the premier celebration of the Allman Brothers Band.
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