When guitarist Duane Allman was looking to start a band in 1969, the first musician he hired was drummer Jai Johanny Johanson. Just 24 years old at the time, Johanson, becoming known from Memphis to ...

Five years after the stage lights dimmed following this triple-set concert, Dickey Betts and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson were the only remaining original members -- and Jaimoe was the only one ...

Among these offshoots are guitarist Warren Haynes' projects Gov't Mule and The Warren Haynes Band, bassist Oteil Burbridge's Oteil and the Pacemakers, drummer Jai Johanny Johanson's Jaimoe's Jasssz ...

From left, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Gregg Allman, Jai Johanny Johanson, Berry Oakley and Butch Trucks in 1969. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; thumbnail, Chad Batka for The New York Times ...

Jai Johanny Johanson, known most widely as “Jaimoe,” a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band and a father of Southern rock, will perform with Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band at 8 p.m. Saturday at ...

The Allman Brothers, from left, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Gregg Allman, Jai Johanny Johanson, Berry Oakley, and Butch Trucks, sit on some railroad tracks on May 5, 1969, outside of Macon ...

Butch Trucks, far right, with, from left, Jai Johanny Johanson, Dickey Betts and Gregg Allman in an undated photograph. Richard E. Aaron/Redferns Mr. Trucks was one of the founding members the ...