John Grandstaff

I’m a big Allman Brothers fan and loved Alan Paul’s first book about the band, “One Way Out”, but “Brothers and Sisters” seems to suffer from poor editing. I almost wonder if the book was rushed out to coincide with the album’s 50th anniversary. The narrative seems disjointed at times, and sentence structure and grammar occasionally trips over itself. Moreover, Mr. Paul may need a geography lesson: In describing the circumstances of Dickey Betts wedding to Sandy Wabegijig, he states that the minister “was late because no ticket was waiting for him at the airport in Green Bay, Michigan.” Compounding this error, Paul then states in a footnote that “It is unclear if [the cab dispatched to pick up the minister] made the thousand-mile drive to Macon or took him to another, larger airport, probably in Milwaukee, Chicago, or Detroit”. If in fact he was coming from Green Bay (Wisconsin, for those still wondering where it actually is) and made it to the wedding that day (albeit “well after the wedding’s scheduled start time”), it seems we can safely assume that he was not transported by cab since that would be a 15+ hour drive. Maybe most Allman Brothers’ fans can overlook this kind of stuff, but it drives me nuts.