Guitarist Marcus King dropped by The Howard Stern Show in New York City lately to pay tribute to his Southern rock forefathers within the Allman Brothers Band. The singer-songwriter and titular bandleader carried out “Ramblin’ Man” between stops on his Mood Swings World Tour.
Introducing the Brothers and Sisters traditional that took the Allmans to the zenith of their industrial success, King remembered the band’s late guitarist Dickey Betts who handed away earlier this 12 months on the age of 80. Dickey’s spirit was alive and effectively in Howard Stern’s studio, as King’s ever-expanding backing band rollicked alongside the tumbling rhythm. Having began performing dwell on the age of 8, the now 28-year-old King embodies the road-weary knowledge Betts immortalized in “Ramblin’ Man”.
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Say what you'll concerning the former youngster prodigy’s choice to deliver a second guitarist into his band, however there’s no higher method to seize the twin lead-guitar strategy that outlined the Allman Brothers’ sound. The delegation of duties has additionally freed up King to give attention to his vocals, an brisk shift felt all through his newest solo album, Mood Swings. After he paid tribute to traditional rock greats (and lamented his personal rock n’ roll excesses) on his earlier disc Young Blood, the bandleader tried somewhat tenderness on his most up-to-date album. Invoking soul greats like Al Green, Bobby Womack, and Marvin Gaye, King laid his spirit naked with a few of the most brutally sincere songwriting of his profession as his lyrics opened up about his struggles with psychological sickness and substance abuse.
“The track and album title ‘Mood Swings’ is a play on the swinging nature of the material while also referencing my up and down shifts in mood while I was either abusing the wrong substances, in between mood stabilizing meds and anti-psychotics, self-medication on top of that, along with a foot locker FULL of repressed childhood trauma all being taken out on my relationship at the time,” King stated on the time. “Without this assembly of songs, I don’t think I’d be around.”
Watch Marcus King carry out the Allman Brothers Band’s “Ramblin’ Man” for Howard Stern, together with Mood Swings monitor “F*ck My Life Up Again” and a guitar warmup train. King’s Mood Swings will proceed with exhibits alongside the East Coast by mid-October earlier than heading abroad. Find tickets and an inventory of tour dates here.
Marcus King — “Ramblin’ Man” (Allman Brothers Band) — The Howard Stern Show
Marcus King — “F*ck My Life Up Again” — The Howard Stern Show
How Marcus King Warms Up To Play — The Howard Stern Show
