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
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.”
