Gregg Allman Documentary Opens June 17, Tracing 1995 Sobriety to Family Trauma

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 16

“Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul” gets a one-night theatrical release on June 17, using rare interviews to frame the Southern rock star’s life as a path from trauma and addiction to redemption.
James Keach says the film links Allman’s struggles to two defining losses — his father’s 1949 murder when he was 2 and brother Duane’s 1971 motorcycle death at 24.
That grief, according to Keach and longtime manager Michael Lehman, shaped Allman’s music, marriages and decades of alcohol and drug abuse even as he carried on with the Allman Brothers Band and a solo career.
A 1995 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction became his breaking point: badly intoxicated at the ceremony, Allman later treated the humiliation as the moment that pushed him into lasting sobriety.
Allman, who died in 2017 at 69, is presented in the film as a wounded but deeply private figure whose children helped drive the recovery that defined his final years.