WCSX Classic Cuts : Ramblin’ Man
WCSX Classic Cuts The Allman Brothers Band: “Ramblin’ Man” The Hook: Dickey Betts thought he’d written a country song at first. Year: 1973 Album: Brothers and Sisters Writer: Dickey Betts…
LOS ANGELES, CA – MAY 19: Warren Haynes, Mike Campbel, Derek Trucks and Tom Petty perform in concert with the Allman Brothers Band at the Greek Theater on May 19, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Angela Weiss/Getty Images)
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The Allman Brothers Band: "Ramblin' Man"
The Hook: Dickey Betts thought he'd written a country song at first.
Year: 1973
Album: Brothers and Sisters
Writer: Dickey Betts
Stats: Peaked at number-two on the Billboard Hot 100.
Background: "Ramblin' Man" is by far The Allman Brothers Band's biggest hit, getting all the way to number-two on the Billboard Hot 100. Dickey Betts remembers where he wrote it and what he initially thought about it.
Ex-Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts on writing “Ramblin’ Man.” OC:…wrote it. :26
“We were living in Macon at the time. The band and our wives and kids lived in this three story old Southern house. We had a music room with all the equipment set up in it – it was a musical house [laughs], a lot of songs were written there. And about three [or] four o’clock one morning I came across ‘Ramblin’ Man.’ I knew that it was a good song, but I thought it was really a country song when I wrote it.”
