A bunch of wildly talented Florida boys including Dickey Betts, the guitar-wielding hellion from Bradenton, formed the Allman Brothers Band in Jacksonville in 1969. They were rock stars in the ...

Betts, a co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band, died on Thursday, April 18 according to a post on his official Instagram page Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Betts' guitar was a key piece of the band's unique sound, which pioneered Southern rock. Dickey Betts, best known as a cofounder and guitarist of the Allman Brothers Band, died on April 18.

Standing in front of a raucous sold-out audience at the Macon City Auditorium in Georgia on Friday night, guitarist Duane Betts paid tribute to his late father, Allman Brothers six-string ace ...