Gregg Allman wrote "Midnight Rider" in the middle of the night. Roadie Kim Payne helped finish it. Nobody paid him for years. “We were getting high, and, honestly, he was starting to irritate me--because he was singing this song over and over, and I got sick of hearing the band play the same shit over and over again until they got it right. So I just threw out the line, ‘I’ve gone past the point of caring / some old bed I’ll soon be sharing.'” Allman promised Payne royalties for the line he gave him, but Kim was never listed as a songwriter and years later had to sue to receive his 5% royalty.