Dickey Betts

I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means. ”

My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him. ”

Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There's resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things. ”

Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot. ”