Duane Betts plays Gasparilla Music Festival at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa, Florida on Feb. 27, 2022. Credit: Photo by Ysanne Taylor c/o Gasparilla Music Festival

Thankfully, last year’s installment of Gasparilla Music Festival wasn’t the last we saw of The Allman Betts Band.

While a hiatus has seemingly come to a halt, Duane Betts—son of Allman Brothers axeman Dickey, a Sarasota resident—still enjoys being his own artist, and one day before this borderline homecoming gig, he will release his debut, 10-track album.

Wild & Precious Life features support from Derek Trucks and Marcus King—the latter also heading to Jannus Live later this year—and was recorded on two-inch analog tape in Trucks and Susan Tedeschi’s studio in Jacksonville.

Tickets to see Duane Betts play Jannus Live in St. Petersburg on Saturday, July 15 are still available for $21. 

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This article appears in Jul 13-19, 2023.

Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's calendar editor. He started as a freelance music writer in 2020 at the age of 18, and after spending years covering, announcing, and previewing concerts in...