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Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.

If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing.

In April of 1976, Epic Records was flying out to sign us when I tripped over a light case after a gig and broke my arm. We called the next morning and said, 'Don't go to the airport - Bun E. broke his arm.' They thought Mercury or someone was trying to sign us, so they offered us, like, $25,000 more on top of the deal.