for BigTrial.netToday, on the streets of Macon, Georgia, people will stand in line along the route to the Rose Hill Cemetery to honor Gregg Allman, the pioneer Southern rocker who died at 69 on Memorial Day weekend.
At the cemetery, Gregg will be buried next to his older brother, Duane, the legendary slide guitarist, who died in 1971 at the tender age of 24, in a motorcycle accident on these same Macon streets.
The Allman Brothers Band gave their last concert in 2014 at the Beacon Theatre in New York, ending a 45 year-run. Sadly, there can be no more reunions now that the last biological Allman brother is dead. So today's graveyard procession will also serve as the final goodbye to one of America's most original and influential rock bands.
It's a 1970s retro celebration. Former president Jimmy Carter will be there, along with Cher, one of Gregg's six wives. And Dickey Betts, a founding band member who left in 2000 after a messy public divorce; Betts reportedly patched things up with Gregg -- call me Gregory -- before he died of liver cancer.
Gregg's longtime manager has asked the mourners to dress casually, as in jeans, and no suits.
