IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH REED

A Bucket List Fulfilled...... 

In 2014, I planned to visit Macon, Georgia, home of my all-time favorite band, The Allman Brothers. My mission was to visit the Big House Museum where Duane, Gregg & Barry lived.  I toured the town, went to all the places I could find where they hung out, took photos of some of the places I saw on album covers. I ate at Mama Hill’s, H&H Soul Food Restaurant, one of their favorite hangouts. Mama was like the Allman’s second mother.  I visited Grants Lounge “The Bar that South Rock Built”. The bartender in the club brought me into the green room where they hung before a performance, pretty cool!  The Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Wet Willie, Marshall Tucker, Boz Scaggs & Tom Petty, just to name a few, had all played there and had also signed with Capricorn Records at the time.

Another one of my missions while in Macon was to visit The Rose Hill Cemetery where it seemed throughout the beginning of the Allman’s career, they hung out, a lot.  Got to visit both Berry Oakley and Duane Allman’s resting place, Gregg had not passed yet. The plot is beautiful!  The Allman’s connection with the Rose Hill Cemetery was abundant: The photo on the back of the first album, pic of the band naked in the stream, I believe was in the Ocmulgee River behind the cemetery, the Little Martha statue and grave site which Duane connected with and wrote the song “Little Martha”.  Lastly, I was in search of Elizabeth Reeds gravestone which Dickey Betts connected with and wrote, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed.  I had three different kinds of paper, I had cloth, I had chalk, crayons, I was set out to etch the gravestone, which I did and as a result, I copyrighted my artwork.  Here it is……One of a kind and my friend & fellow musician John "Bubba" Scronce is sporting it.......$20.00