Bob Seger on Gregg Allman's Death: 'Lost Another Music Titan'

Gregg Allman (Photo: By Alberto Cabello, Wikimedia Commons)

Local rocker Bob Seger had fond words for famed musician Gregg Allman, who passed away on Saturday.

In a posting on Facebook and Twitter, Seger writes:

A case can be made, the Allman Brothers established Southern Rock as a musical genre. Gregg was one of my favorite rock singers of all time, he put immense soul into his music. Loved “Low Country Blues” – an amazing album, listen to it over and over. So sad, we’ve lost another music titan.

Allman, a founding member of the Allman Brothers, died at his home in Savannah, Ga, from a reoccurence of liver cancer, the New York Times reports. He was 69.

His brother Duane Allman, a co-founder of the band, died in 1971 in a motorcycle crash at the age of 24. Afterwards, Gregg Allman continued to perform.