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appalachiablue

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Wed May 22, 2024, 04:01 PM May 2024

💙 BLUE SKY, By Dickey Betts RIP, The Allman Brothers Band (2)

Last edited Wed May 22, 2024, 05:34 PM - Edit history (1)


- 1972 album Eat A Peach. For Peace.🍊
'Blue Sky' was written and sung by Dickey Betts. The song is about Betts' Indigenous Canadian girlfriend, Sandy 'Bluesky' Wabegijig who he later married.
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- Wiki. "Blue Sky," song by the American rock band The Allman Brothers Band from their 3rd studio album, Eat a Peach (1972). The track is also notable as one of guitarist Duane Allman's final recorded performances with the group.
The band's 2 guitarists, Duane Allman and Dickey Betts, alternate playing the song's lead: Allman's solo beginning 1:07 in, Betts joining in a shared melody line at 2:28, followed by Betts's solo at 2:37... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Sky_(song)

- Blue Sky, The Allman Brothers Band, Live in Germany, 1991. 🌈 💙
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