{"id":30223,"date":"2025-03-19T09:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/?p=30223"},"modified":"2025-03-19T09:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:40:25","slug":"gregg-allman-w-alan-light-my-cross-to-bear-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/gregg-allman-w-alan-light-my-cross-to-bear-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregg Allman w\/Alan Light My Cross To Bear Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"30223\" class=\"elementor elementor-30223\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cdab4e7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"cdab4e7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c1efc7b\" data-id=\"c1efc7b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17c9470 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"17c9470\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Singer\/songwriter\/musician Gregg Allman, of The Allman Brothers Band and solo artist, collaborated with Alan Light to put out his book &#8220;My Cross To Bear&#8221; in 2012.<\/p><p>This is about Gregg&#8217;s life growing up, his relationship with his older brother Duane (also in The Allman Brothers Band), good and bad times with the band, breakups and reunions, deaths (including his brother Duane and bassist Barry Oakley, and unfortunately in 2025 as I type this, most of the members of the band are gone including Gregg), substance abuse, relationships and marriages Gregg had (including with Cher), and all kinds of rock and roll stories.<\/p><p>If you are a fan of Gregg&#8217;s and The Allman Brothers Band, I don&#8217;t know how you could not read this book.<\/p><p>It&#8217;s got it all and then some.<\/p><p>I wish Gregg and most of the guys in the band were still here, but thank goodness for the music they made, together and separately, and for this document of a lot of their history, told by the very talented Gregg Allman, or as his friends called him Gregory.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section 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