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    THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND

    Feb 20, 2020 3 minutes
    By Stephen Deusner

    Trouble No More: 50th Anniversary Collection IVLANG PHRCUR\/UNIYHRVAL

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    IT began with a jam. Fresh off a tour with pop star Tommy Roe, Chicago-born bass player Berry Oakley settled down in Sarasota and embedded himself in the local music scene. In the late 1960s he began hosting unrehearsed concerts every Sunday at Willow Branch Park. Free to the public and open to anybody with an instrument, these events gave young musicians from Central Florida an opportunity to play together, share notes, possibly form bands, and of course jam for as long as they liked in whichever directions the

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