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EXCLUSIVE: Cinemas nationwide will soon beryllium rocking to nan communicative of 1 of music’s top talents.
Subtext, successful relation pinch Rolling Stone Films, coming announced nan home theatrical merchandise of Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul directed by James Keach. The documentary will unfastened Wednesday, June 17, including one-week engagements successful Los Angeles and New York arsenic good arsenic one-night exclusive screenings crossed nan country.
Leading up to nan merchandise day will beryllium 2 premiere events: a June 9 screening astatine New York City’s Gramercy Theatre featuring a typical acoustic capacity by Devon Allman (one of nan sons of Gregg Allman) and Duane Betts. A screening connected June 11 astatine nan Grand Opera House successful Macon, GA, will see a typical quality by Chuck Leavell, a personnel of nan Allman Brothers Band. Both events will characteristic a Q&A pinch members of nan filmmaking team.
Watch a teaser-trailer for nan movie below.
“Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul offers a profound image of Gregg Allman, a sparkling fig whose life and songs reflector his struggles and salvation,” notes a release. “This visionary euphony documentary traces Allman’s turbulent, transcendent travel done profound individual calamity and hard-won redemption – from a puerility ruptured by his father’s execution to nan soulful emergence that birthed Southern stone and permanently reshaped American music. Told done archival recordings, candid interviews, and electrical unrecorded performances, nan movie weaves an friendly image of Allman, honestly reflecting connected nan decease of his relative and bandmate Duane, his battles pinch addiction, and nan individual demons that shaped some his life and his blues-driven music. The documentary is anchored by seldom seen performance footage that captures nan Allman Brothers Band astatine their imaginative peak, offering audiences an immersive, front-row position of 1 of stone ‘n’ roll’s astir powerful unrecorded outfits.”
The merchandise continues, “Beyond nan music, Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul explores what Gregg Allman and nan Allman Brothers Band came to correspond successful American civilization – an ethos rooted successful creator freedom, collaboration, and defiance of convention. It highlights really Gregg and nan set rejected nan group divisions that defined overmuch of nan American South, grounding their sound successful heavy respect for Black philharmonic traditions and collaboration pinch Black musicians astatine a clip erstwhile integrated stone groups were rare. The documentary besides examines Allman’s analyzable narration pinch fame, including his highly publicized matrimony to Cher, and really life successful nan nationalist oculus collided pinch his restless pursuit of authenticity. Together, Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul affirms Gregg Allman not conscionable arsenic 1 of stone ‘n’ roll’s top and astir influential artists, but arsenic a lasting taste unit whose power extended acold beyond nan stage.”
Keach directed and produced nan documentary. His credits see include 2005’s Walk The Line (five Oscar nominations, including an Oscar triumph Reese Witherspoon for Best Actress) and documentaries Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me (2014), David Crosby: Remember My Name (2019), and Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (winner of nan 2021 Grammy Award for Best Music Film).
“Gregg’s communicative wholly resonated pinch me,” Keach said, “especially his narration pinch his brother, Duane. I person a very adjacent narration pinch my brother, Stacy. We worked together for years connected a batch of awesome projects – The Long Riders was formative for america arsenic good arsenic for nan Carradine and Quaid brothers – and nan thought of losing my relative astatine specified a young property really sewage me.”
Keach continued, “Not everyone useful this way, but I judge that knowing trauma from nan formative years of a person’s life is cardinal erstwhile telling their communicative successful a documentary. A batch of unthinkable artists person these shattering experiences successful their past that pass each facet of their lives and talent. Gregg had those demons wrong his amazingly imaginative brain. He dove heavy into his addiction erstwhile Duane died, but later successful life, erstwhile he was sober, he faced his ain mortality pinch dignity and acceptance. It’s personally important to maine to transportation Gregg’s connection of trying to alteration nan trajectory of group consumed by addiction. You tin perceive nan ache successful his sound successful his superb music.”
Along pinch Keach, nan documentary is produced by longtime Allman head Michael Lehman and Alex Komisaruk of PCH Films. Executive producers see Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank (Music by John Williams, Faye, Laurel Canyon) of Amblin Documentaries; Douglas Banker of Five All successful nan Fifth; Michael Hughes and Greg C. Lake of DLP Media Group; Robert Stein, Alexandra Dale of Rolling Stone Films, and Brian Levy and Teddy Liouliakis of Subtext.
“I was Gregg’s friend,” Lehman said successful a statement. “This movie is individual to maine because I want nan world to cognize nan Gregg down nan music. “Gregg was impacted by, among different things, his profoundly adjacent narration and nan tragic nonaccomplishment of his relative Duane. His euphony reflects nan joyousness and nan symptom of his life experiences. I chose James Keach to nonstop this movie because James is some an incredibly talented head and has a adjacent narration pinch his ain brother, Stacy. I knew from nan commencement that he would bring to life Gregg’s story, including nan narration pinch Duane and pinch his band, The Allman Brothers Band, and that James would beryllium capable to create some an enjoyable and profoundly memorable film.”
Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul marks nan inaugural merchandise from Subtext, nan independent movie accumulation and distribution institution started successful January of this twelvemonth by Danielle DiGiacomo, Brian Levy, and Teddy Liouliakis. The company’s ngo is to “focus connected author-driven, unique cinema.”
Subtext’s Levy observed, “Gregg Allman’s euphony is woven into nan cloth of American culture, and this movie captures some nan artistry and nan humanity down nan legend. We’re proud to bring nan movie to American audiences, offering devoted fans uncommon penetration and archival worldly while introducing Gregg’s bequest to a caller generation.”
Gregg Allman (1947-2017), known for stone standards “Midnight Rider,” “It’s Not My Cross To Bear,” “Dreams,” “Whipping Post” and more, “was undoubtedly among stone ‘n’ roll’s top and astir important artists, his soul-fired and utterly unique sound still 1 of nan defining sounds successful each of American music,” comments a merchandise astir nan documentary. “From his founding domiciled successful nan 1 and only Allman Brothers Band to his agelong and storied solo career, Allman consistently proved himself to beryllium an iconic singer/songwriter and exceptional practitioner of nan American blues tradition.”
Allman received nan 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award astatine nan 54th Annual Grammy Awards. The Allman Brothers Band was inducted into nan Rock and Roll Hall of Fame successful 1995.
Watch nan teaser-trailer for Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul here.
