The importance of Dickie Betts in the Allmans can't be overstated.

Dickie Betts, Legend! RIP brother

Georgia boy here. I spent the first fifteen years of my career traveling between industrial sites. This song is the opening tune on the sound track of my life. Followed by Call Me the Breeze.

Mr Dickie Betts a overlooked Great Guitarist RIP Sir 🎸

What I love most about this song is that it starts off as a sweet little country ditty, but it ends up as a runaway freight train!! Fantastic song with great guitars.

Wife here. Love these guys . If you haven’t heard Blue Sky got to hear it one of their best .

All the guitars are Dickie. This was recorded right after Duane died.

The late, great Dickie Betts on vocals and lead guitar.

Truly a Dickey song! After a chorus/verse/chorus/guitar solo/verse/chorus, the song resolves for another two minutes in an intricate section inspired by the end of "Layla," a track Duane Allman played on. This was Dickey Betts' idea. To accomplish it, he first tried overdubbing lots of guitar parts, but then recruited his friend Les Dudek, who was in the studio, to play lead with him, as Duane would have. They played together, creating a bed by repeating the guitar line over and over, then doing it again in a lower register, which they then overdubbed onto the track. Betts then overdubbed a lead part on slide guitar, coming in and out of the track as he listened to the bed. This section served as a tribute to Duane Allman, as it built on the twin-guitar harmony sound he forged with the band. It also gave the band lots of room to show their chops when they played it live. Legends all…

This song feels like cruising down the highway

The 1970's, last decade of "Ramblers" in America, free spirit and traveling the land. Such a different time in those days, the best music.

Jaimoe, the drummer, might be the only original member still alive. He was the most level-headed guy in the group.

This band represented Georgia about as good as you could. Invented a genre of music and had some of the best musicians around. RIP DB.

RIP Dickey Betts…. So many of your songs provided the soundtrack of my life thank you brother

Besides the Grateful Dead, one of the biggest long jam bands in concert ever.

Southbound and Jessica from that album are 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Now that's Southern Rock.

The Allman Brothers were in a class all their own. Duane was phenominal, Dickey Betts, Greg Allman. Just amazing music. Try to imagine being 13 in 1970 when all of these bands dropped lps!! There has never been so many different bands with their own sound....EVER. Love it all

Imagine hearing this song on AM radio in 1973 on your clock radio at 6:30am

What a nice guitar jam. Dickie had such a nice fluidity to his solos. He's got a real good command of switching back and forth between the minor and major pentatonic scales

I can really hear the two drummer set up in this song, awesome. "Ramblin' Man" was their biggest hit besides "Whipping Post" but my all time favorite by The Allman Brothers is "Blue Sky". It didn't chart well at all for some reason but for me it's one of their best songs. Hope you get to check it out.

Dickie Betts, Respect. RIP

All DB on this track !RIP

- I fondly remember diggin' on this in the 70s (in my teens). - And, I just now exclaimed out loud in astonishment of the time gone by: "OVER 50 YEARS AGO!!!" :)

RIP Dickey Betts, Duane Allman

One of Berry Oakleys last tracks with the Brothers before his tragic accident. Great bass player. RIP

"Seven Turns" is another great song of the alman brothers.

One of the best driving along to songs

The Allman Brothers were the first Southern Rock band. Phenomenal band. Check out "Melissa" sung by lead singer Gregg Allman and "Blue Sky" sung by Dickie Betts. Sadly, all of the original members are gone except for Jaimoe. That is Butch Truck's son on the front cover of the album and on the back cover is Berry Oakley Jr's. daughter.

this song always brings a smile to my heart.....

RIP Dickie... Thank you for your genius.

You guys have the best channel and you react to Great Classic Music

This is probably the Allman Brothers biggest radio hit

Written by Dickie Betts. When this first came out, it got overplayed on the radio Keep on keeping on with the excellent weekend 😀 . Excellent reaction, fellas 👏 🎉❤😊😊😊

When we listened to these guys, one just could not think about Duane and Barry's absence. Dickie Betts is a giant.

Southbound!

Dickie Betts, Duane "Sky Dog" Allman and Greg Allman. RIP.

Checkout Statesboro Blues

I really like this song , I remember hearing it on the radio quite a bit back in the day. Thanks guys!

Dickey was absolutely a country boy at heart!

Fillmore East, NYC, Feb. 14, 1970…I was lucky to see their concert with The Dead! The Allman Bros. were immediately loved. Did you check out Melissa? An awesome one.

Man, I wish I'd seen them live! Sweet, sweet music that makes you feel good.

Watching this reaction all I can say is…EXACTLY!!!

This is the definition of “soaring guitar”

😂😂 love your reactions true from the heart

HUGE HUGE RADIO PLAY GUYS!!! 😊

Two drummers and two guitarists in perfect harmony sounding like just one of each…RIP,Dickey,Duane, Gregg, etc!

I love this song and this band, Southern Rock meets jam band

🎸🌹 Dickey Betts 🌹🎸 RIP to a Legend

Gotta watch the live acoustic performance of "Melissa" wit Greg Allman and Dickey Betts if you haven't already. It's a 'magical' performance of that great song!

Back in the day if this was in the jukebox we were playing it and singing along….loudly! 😂 Love the Allmans!

Love ABB....the roadtrip soundtrack of my youth!

This WAS their biggest hit. By far. Peeked at #2. A guitar gem by Dickie and Les Dudek

Southbound by them is great.

Just a classic. A #2 hit held from the top spot by Cher. Foreshadowing!

Probably one of the only Alllman Brothers tunes with traditional methods of chorus and verses building blocks

Loved Jessica off this album since I was 10 years old....

You guys are so adorable as you explore the best decade of music...the 70s....of course. Cheers and great reaction!

Huge radio hit.

RIP Dickey Betts…this entire album is fire!

huge hit,their most successful hit single

Fun fact... Dickie brought this song to the band, assuming Gregg would be singing it, seeing as he was the lead singer of the band. Duane convinced Dickie to sing it himself, and helped rewrite some of the guitar parts.

Props to Phil Walden for starting Capricorn Records. Phil tried to catch Southern Rock on vinyl, many will try, but Phil Walden captured Southern Rock the best on his label.

Please check out “same old song and dance” by Aerosmith. It’s right up your ally!

Pure goodness

AWESOME ROAD TRIP MUSIC!! SAW THEM 3 TIMES !! 😍😢🎸🐐🔥

Ramble on. ❤😊

My Dad (RIP) was great friends with Willie Perkins who was their tour manager. Oh the stories…

Dickie Betts really could write and play a melody. It's a amazing the guy that wrote this did Les Brers in A Minor and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed too.

Oh! Bite your tongue! Those are FLORIDA boys, born and bred.

How have y’all not hit on this yet? This might actually be the first Allmans I ever heard growing up I think. Such a great summer driving song, for crusing, not speeding lol. You should try “Blue Sky” as well as the very modern 2000s song “Firing Line”.

The song reminds me of Sunday mornings when I was a kid

The line “ my father was a gambler….he wound up on the wrong end of a gun…”brings to mind the fact that Duane and Gregg’s father was actually murdered when they were young ….

You’re entering the post Duane era now. This band was such a huge part of our lives in the south that we weren’t sure they would survive the losses of Duane and Berry. I’ve never been so happy about the release of an album as I was this one! The ABB would go on! You’ve got to understand that information did not flow so easily in those days, and was certainly not at your fingertips as now. I remember buying my copy and heading back to the dorm at the University of South Alabama and hearing this music blasting out of dorm windows onto the quad! Such a joyous day!! I can’t think of another band that endured more than the ABB, and persevered through it all. Deaths, divorces, addictions, legal problems (busts), personnel changes, and on and on. (Skynyrd would be right behind them in the tragedy department!)

I remember listening to the real long jam session on this song.. it lasts a very very long time. This was the short version...lol Awesome song & reaction vid..

RIP Dickey Betts ❤️🎶🍄

I saw em so many times in the 70s, living in Atlanta, I lost count. Pretty sure that was Dickey on lead vocals. I was always pretty trashed back then. First time I saw em was just maybe a month before Dwayne passed. Always a joy to hear. Great memories no matter how vague. Lol...

This was the first album recorded after Duane and Berry died. Les Dudek played harmony. The little boy on the cover is Vaylor Trucks, Butch's son. The photos were taken at a farm in Lizella, a little town close to Macon. Idlewild South was the name of the farm, I think. People from Middle Georgia were familiar with Highway 41, etc. If I'm not mistaken, this song was the 1st if not only #1 hit for the ABB.

Nice! I've been listening to this since it was new and I was just a kid with an ear for catchy tunes heard over the radio my parents were listening to in the car.

Dickie Betts does give his songs a country flavor.

Great 👍

Keep up the great work guys! LOVE your reviews! I just commented on your review of the Grateful Dead's "Cumberland Blues" from their Europe '72 album because you were making a similar point that they are very diverse in their sound, and you really never know what to expect going in. The same thing happens with The Allman Brothers for the same reason: 2 drummers. Many people don't pick up on how much having 2 drummers really opens up their sound, and expands the rhythmic possibilities.

Dickie Betts stepping up with a hit shortly after Duane's demise. Playing Duanes part as well as his own. This song is basically the beginning of Southern Rock as prior to Duanes fatal motorcycle accident The Allman Bros were more blues based. This one took off like a rocket!!!!

This was playing on the jukebox in the movie "The Exorcist"

Sweet Southern rock

Boom again ☘️🇺🇲

BLUE SKY IS MY FAVORITE ABB SONG !

I hope you review this entire album! Thanks La and Che for more of The Allman Brothers.

Dude was rollin on piano

I saw the Dickie Betts Band live in the mid-80s. This song seemed to go on forever (in a good way). Although, I was tripping on mushrooms at the time. Thanks for the reaction.

Someone below says check out "Statesboro Blues" (along w/ "Whipping Post" probably my favorite ABB songs. Anyway I read somewhere Rolling Stone named Statesboro Blues #9 of all time best rock songs. Not 100% sure that's true but imo it oughta make everyone's Top Ten list.

Following Love both your reactions and thoughts carry on...

According to the members of the Allman Brothers band, rock ‘n’ roll was born in Memphis, Tennessee, which is in the south so according to them. All rock ‘n’ roll is Southern rock. 😉 The brothers did not like to be called a southern rock band They felt they were much more than that and they were. Rock, blues, jazz country even a little gospel. The brothers did it all. Greatest band in the world….. PERIOD !!!!

Road trip!

Everyone's commenting about the guitar, but that piano tho.

Road trip music!!!!!

'Jessica' is at least as familiar as 'Ramblin Man' as far as airplay on this great album. 'Southbound' is excellent.

You still need to listen to Blue Sky. Another Dickey classic.

Dickie Betts, the Man!

This is Southern rock Symphony. It doesn’t get better than this The epitome of southern rock. This is the top.