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\nBROTHERS AND SISTERS: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the 70s (St. \nMartin\u2019s Press) by Alan Paul is a deep dive into the time before and after 1973\u2019s Brothers and Sisters. It was not only the band\u2019s best-selling album, at over seven million copies sold, but it was also a powerfully influential release, both musically and culturally, one whose influence continues to be profoundly felt. Celebrating the album\u2019s 50th anniversary, Brothers and Sisters the book delves into the making of the album, while also presenting a broader cultural history of the era, based on first-person interviews, historical documents and deep research and a trove of never-before-heard interviews conducted by the band\u2019s \u201cTour Mystic,\u201d Kirk West.\n \nThe five-year period between Duane Allman\u2019s 1971 death and the Allman Brothers Band\u2019s 1976 breakup was a remarkable run for the group that helped define the era, rock history and American culture and politics. They played a major role in electing President Jimmy Carter; were intimately linked with the Grateful Dead; and inspired the Marshall Tucker Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the entire Southern Rock genre. Gregg Allman\u2019s marriage to the iconic star Cher also put the couple at the vanguard of a newly emerging celebrity media culture.

\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: ALAN PAUL is the author of the New York Times bestseller One Way Out: The Inside History of \nthe Allman Brothers Band, the definitive book on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band and Texas Flood: the Inside Story \nof Stevie Ray Vaughan. The latter has been optioned and is being developed for both documentary and feature films. \nHisfirst book, Big in China, is about his experiences raising an American family, forming a band and becoming an unlikely \nrock star in Beijing. He also founded Friends of the Brothers, the premier celebration of the music of the Allman Brothers \nBand, featuring members of the Dickey Betts, Jaimoe and Gregg Allman bands. He is a regular guest on radio shows and \na frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Guitar World, and other publications. He lives in New Jersey.\n\n\n\n