Allman Brothers Cancel Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010

San Francisco (GaeaTimes.com) - One of the founders of the Allman Brothers band, Gregg Allman had liver transplant this week. For this reason their performance has been cancelled for this time. He is suffering from Hepatitis C and had the surgery in Jacksonville and he is recovering well. They were about to participate in Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010. But Gregg Allman was affected by hepatitis C. He has been waiting for a new liver for a long time and it is very great news that it was happened successfully. Doctors have assured that he will be fit for walk within very short period of time.

The Allman Brothers band is an American rock band. In the year 1969, two brothers Duane Allman and Gregg Allman founded this band in Jacksonville, Florida. Lead guitar and slide guitar are controlled by Duane Allman in this band whereas Gregg Allman took the charge of vocal, organs and song writing. The other members of this band were Dickey Betts who plays lead guitar and also associated with vocals and songwriting, Berry Oakley, the bass guitarist, Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny “Jaimoe” Johanson play drums. This band got their first breakthrough in the year 1971 with release of AT Fillmore East. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed and Whipping Post are the two best albums they have ever made. The bassist Oakley died in a motor cycle accident and the replacements were Chuck Leavell and Lamar Williams. They reached at the peak of commercial success with the release of the album Brothers and Sisters in 1973. The Ramblin Man was the terrific hit. After having some hard times, this band got stability in the year 2000 with Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks. The band was induced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.