BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Forrest Richard Betts
NickName: “Dickey”
Description: Guitarist, USA
Known For: Member and lead guitarist of THE ALLMAN BROTHERS
Instruments: Guitar
Music Styles: Hard Rock
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 12th December 1943
Location Born: West Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Dickey Betts
An American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and also won with the band a best rock performance Grammy Award for his instrumental “Jessica” in 1996.
Recognized as “one of the most influential guitar players of all time”, he had early on in his career one of rock’s finest guitar partnerships with the late Duane Allman introducing melodic twin guitar harmony and counterpoint which “rewrote the rules for how two rock guitarists can work together, completely scrapping the traditional rhythm/lead roles to stand toe to toe”.
Dickey Betts was ranked #58 on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time list in 2003.
In 1989, the group reformed with some new members and has been recording and touring since. A series of personnel changes in the late 1990s was capped by the departure of Betts. The group found stability during the 2000s with Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks, the nephew of their drummer
The band has been awarded eleven gold and five platinum albums between 1971 and 2005 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Rolling Stone ranked them 52nd on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004.