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They nearly vanished, then staged one of rock's great comebacks. These are the best of the best.

Some of these albums started as studio recordings and turned into something completely different the moment a live crowd showed up.

The late Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee discussed that and many other career points in Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul, a new documentary in theaters today.

The late Allman Brothers Band guitarist opened an important door.

"I consider it an honor to have crossed musical paths with him," said the Doobie Brothers' Michael McDonald.

With its unprecedented third set, this became one of their longest-ever concerts.

He'd been suffering from cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

"People may find that hard to believe, but it had never happened," Warren Haynes tells UCR. "It was history."

Deaths of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley still loomed in 1973.

Rocker is currently out on the fifth annual Allman Family Revival tour.

They were missing the camaraderie of the band's past incarnations and certainly a vision for the future.

Artists were all at distinctive – yet very different – points in their careers.