Greg Allman
I read a while back that Greg Allman had a new album out called Low Country Blues. Seeing how this is my year of austerity and I made a deal with the devil to buy no book and no music, I was in a trick bag. So I found a way out of it. I asked T to buy it for me for my birthday! Genius. I have an affinity for the Allman Brothers music, and my first husband was in prison with Allman, but I’ll say no more about that.
Today I was driving back from the gym and WWOZ played one of the songs off Allman’s new album, I Believe I’ll Go Back Home – listen to John Lee Hooker playing it here. Allman speeds it up just a touch, less bluesy and more R&B – but I liked it – driving home, down Orleans Avenue, which is all tore up, feeling the moist air blowing my hair through the open window of my pick up truck.
These are the moments I live for and I came back home to have them.