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First Listen: Gregg Allman, 'Southern Blood'

A rock 'n' roll lifer says goodbye on his own terms.

is the kind of farewell every rock 'n' lifer hopes to make. But when the fateful hour arrives, few are blessed with both the time and the touch to pull it off. was one of the few who did. Prince surely could have, if the end hadn't come so unexpectedly. made it his final priority, hunkering down in the mother church of Southern music, ' FAME Studios, in the final months of his life to cut

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