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    Dickey Betts, guitarist and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, dies at 80

    by August Brown, Los Angeles Times Apr 18, 2024 2 minutes
    Dickey Betts attends a press conference for the Gibson Custom Southern Rock Tribute 1959 Les Paul at the Gibson Guitar Factory on May 19, 2014, in Nashville, Tennessee.

    Dickey Betts, the guitarist and co-founder of Southern rockers the Allman Brothers Band, died Thursday of cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 80.

    In statement posted to Betts' website, the musician's family said he died at home in Osprey, Florida. They said Betts was a "legendary performer, songwriter, bandleader, and family patriarch.

    "Dickey was larger-than-life, and

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