Hudson recently spoke with Gregg Allman, who formed the Allman Brothers Band in 1969 with his brother Duane, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny “Jaimoe” Johanson.

Jai Johanny Johanson, better known by his stage name, Jaimoe, has been playing drums and percussion since he was 16. From the beginning, he was so certain of his career path that he didn't even ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even after 45 years of peaks and valleys with the band, drummer Jai Johanny Johanson, better known as Jaimoe, still relishes the summer tours, their annual run of shows at the Beacon Theater in ...

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 ...

Jai Johanny Johanson takes the phone call while at his desk job. “My desk,” he says, “is my drums.” Jaimoe is how most people know him. Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band is his latest endeavor ...

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 ...

The Allman Brothers — Duane Allman (from left), Dickey Betts, Gregg Allman, Jai Johanny Johanson, Berry Oakley and Butch Trucks — in 1969 outside Macon, Ga. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images) ...

Before there was an Allman Brothers Band, a musical kinship grew between a pair of Southern-born musicians: a black drummer named Jai Johanny Johanson and a white guitar player named Duane Allman.