Gregg Allman Documentary Exposes a Battle-Worn Soul and Redemption

A new documentary, Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul, blends archival interviews and new chats with family and peers to reveal a life shaped by trauma and recovery: a military-school upbringing after his father’s murder, a life-changing exposure to Otis Redding and Jackie Wilson, the Allman Brothers’ dual-drummer lineup, a solo blaze with Laid Back, seven marriages, decades of alcohol and drug struggle followed by sobriety, and endless visions of his late brother Duane that sustained him to the end.