Any post that includes the new Hiss Golden Messenger album, Dave Mason, & the late, great David Allan Coe deserves attention.

Lots to dig into here from Michael Elliott. Here’s a snippet that hits close to home:

In 1986, the title track from Coe’s album Son of the South (the cover of which found Coe embracing his infant son, Tyler Mahan Coe, draped in a Confederate flag) glorified the sound of Southern Rock in a sort of mashup of the Charlie Daniels Band’s “The South’s Gonna Do It” and Kris Kristofferson’s “If You Don’t Like Hank Williams.” It featured a guitar solo by Dickey Betts (we know this because Coe makes sure to yell out his full name beforehand). It was at that session where Betts met Warren Haynes, who by that point had spent most of the decade with Coe as his lead guitarist and backing vocalist. From that session lay the seeds for what became the Dickey Betts Band and—most importantly—the Allman Brothers Band’s successful second wind through the ‘90s and into the 2010s.

Yep, DAC is as responsible for kicking off the Allman Brothers’ 25 year reunion as just about anyone not named Allman, Betts, Trucks, or Jaimoe.