On what would have been Gregg Allman's 72nd birthday, we look at the rebirth of Capricorn Sound Studios, ground zero for Southern rock
“It’s an honor to be here and be able to pay tribute to the cast of musicians that did it before us, paving the way for us to do what we love,” says King. “I feel a great deal of responsibility to be able to carry the torch and put my own spin on it. I think it’s a beautiful thing that I now know I can always go and cut a song at Capricorn Records.
“We were all bands looking for a place and an inspiration where we could accomplish our dreams — that beacon was Capricorn,” says Jimmy Hall in a dressing room after his segment in the revival . “The label had more to do with attitude. I saw a direction with Capricorn that just felt right. We wanted to make music like the Allman Brothers and that was where we wanted to be.”
By the late 1950s, Walden had befriended Redding, eventually becoming his manager and forming a music publishing company together in Macon. But that all changed with Redding’s untimelyDuring that period, Walden was also managing several notable R&B acts , which led to a relationship with producer Jerry Wexler, the co-founder of Atlantic Records.
And it was Wexler who introduced Walden to guitarist Duane Allman, an interaction that parlayed itself into Duane moving to Macon and forming the Allman Brothers Band under the Capricorn banner. In 1971, Capricorn and rock music itself was devastated by the death of Duane Allman, who perished in a motorcycle accident at 24 in Macon. Just a little more than a year later, Allman’s bassist Berry Oakley also died in a similar motorcycle crash in the city. In that deafening musical vacuum, the band summoned the strength to continue and soon hit radio gold with guitarist Dickey Betts at the helm.
“I don’t think we’d have had a career without Capricorn. They were our first big record contract and propped us up when we were a young band,” says Widespead Panic’s John Bell. “Macon is a little town that had a big explosion in the music industry — it blew across the south and around the world. There’s a lot of pillars of rock & roll in this town.”
Mercer was all in on the relaunch, with Allman insisting that they not change a single thing in the studio because the sound in the room “was perfect.”“Gregg said, ‘Don’t change that room. Don’t mess up a good thing,’” Leavell says. “And when I walk in the studio, I can feel the presence of Phil and Frank — I feel it, and it’s all good. I’m sure they’re smiling somewhere.”
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