Forty Years of the Allman Brothers

Gregg Allman during a tour stop in Indiana, August 1986.

Band members pose for a Rolling Stone photo shoot in Bradenton, Florida, April 1990. Kirk West photographed them over the magazine photographer’s shoulder.

A Memphis, Tennessee, photo shoot for the Shades of Two Worlds album, March 1991.

Blues vocalist Junior Wells sings with the Allman Brothers Band at the Kingston Mines in Chicago, May 1979.

Gregg Allman and friends ride through the Black Hills in Sturgis, South Dakota, August 1990.

The band in West Memphis, Arkansas, March 1991.

Guitarist Dickey Betts with his black Labrador retriever, Bill, in Tallahassee, Florida, 1989.

Gregg Allman performs for the “Seven Turns” video shoot at Silvercup Studios in New York City, 1990.

Dickey Betts’s hat and guitar for the “Seven Turns” video shoot at Silvercup Studios in New York City, 1990.

Gregg Allman in a Memphis, Tennessee, studio with producer Tom Dowd, March 1991.

Butch Trucks performs at Alpine Valley Music Theater, Wisconsin, August 1981.

The setup at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, July 2004.

Gregg Allman at Alpine Valley Music Theater, Wisconsin, June 1980.

Eric Clapton performs with the band at the Beacon Theater in New York City, March 2009.

West took this picture for the album An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band in front of the Orpheum Theatre in Boston, May 1993.