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Dickey Betts in the zone closing down the Fillmore East, June 26, 1971. In the words of Bill Graham, "the best of them all." Photo by Ben Haller.

Dickey Betts Band

07/18/2022

Luv him

In the spring of 1969 six musicians decamped from Jacksonville, Florida to their new home base of Macon, Georgia. They found a place to crash and started rehearsing in their manager’s recording studio. The studio was hot, with no air conditioning and no amenities. The guys would drop into the barbershop next door to grab a
Coke from the soda machine and cool off in the air conditioning, and sometimes slide in back for a few rolls of the bones in the ever-running dice game that took place there. The barbershop’s shoeshine concessionaire was young, just like the musicians, and they struck up immediate conversations with each other, sharing the joy of music and life, and become fast friends. That was the nexus of Hewell “Chank” Middleton and the Allman Brothers Band.

Chank developed a friendship with the entire group, but especially Gregg Allman, as they became the closest of friends. At various times, Chank worked for Gregg and the ABB as a personal assistant, facilitator and confidant; everyone in the ABB loved and cherished Chank.

When asked why he was called Chank, he smiled, laughed in his trademark chuckle and replied, “I don’t know; my grandma called me that. It must have been something I was doing as a little kid.” The Allman Brothers Band family is deeply saddened by the loss of their brother, Chank Middleton, as he joins Duane, Berry, Butch, Gregg, and the rest of the “crew.” Let them know we will all be coming – won’t be long before we are there.

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