5/19/2023 0 Comments One way out allman brothers bookI’ve thought about this book for 20 years and worked on it very actively for three years. It’s wonderful to have it out there, of course – and it’s a bit surreal. We had the opportunity to talk with Alan Paul about his labor of love … which, as it turns out, began when he was 12 years old.īR: Alan, first of all, let me congratulate you – this is quite a piece of work, man.ĪP: Thank you very much. The result is an engaging book about a legendary band that both the seasoned Peach Corps veteran and the casual fan will enjoy. There’s the good, the bad, and – sometimes – the ugly, but as guitarist Derek Trucks once told Paul, “If it happened, it happened.” Paul used an oral history format for much of One Way Out, letting those who lived the tale tell the tale. Paul – a welcome friend of the band and their inner circle for years – manages to present the Allman’s story fairly. When author Alan Paul says that writing One Way Out – his brand-new oral history of the Allman Brothers – “took a pound of flesh” out of him, there’s no doubt but that it did – to do it right. For as public as The Allman Brothers Band’s saga has been for the last 45 years – a mix of magnificent triumphs and macabre tragedies dues-paying and wretched excesses clashing egos and brotherly love – their story has never been righteously told … until now.
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