Dickey Betts: Movin' On Out Of The Macon Mess
Mick Farren, NME, 11 June 1977
I GUESS it's fair to say that Dickey Betts was the one member of The Allman Brothers to come out of the convoluted saga of death, dope and slow Southern dementia intact and with clean hands.
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