Gregg Allman's Big Engagement News

"Sunbeams shining through his hair, appearing not to have a care. Well, pick up your gear and Gypsy roll on." -Gregg Allman in "Sweet Melissa"

Gregg Allman with his third and most well-known wife, Cher (married 1975-1979).

You know what, I really don’t get celebrities.

Sure, people love them because they are talented, beautiful, rich and amazing at almost everything they do, but then they have a mental breakdown and shave their entire heads at the expense of negative attention from various media outlets. Or is that still only Britney Spears?

However, in Gregg Allman’s case, he goes and gets engaged to a girl 20 years younger than him.

Every celebrity is entitled to a mental breakdown, but Allman really has been shaping up lately. Well, besides the whole liver failure/hernia surgery forcing him off the stage a few months back at the band’s annual Beacon Theater concerts, which also caused him to delay his “Cross to Bear” book tour—but you can read all about that in an article I wrote for Dualshow.com.

Nope, Allman is back to health and plans on joining his band this summer at the All Good Music Festival and the Peach Music Festival, celebrating 40 years since the 1972 live album “Eat a Peach.”

Allman spilled the engagement-beans on a semi-awkward interview on CNN last week with Piers Morgan. When asked how Shannon (the newest fiancée who coincidently looks very similar to Hilary Duff’s sister- who I only know from Napoleon Dynamite) feels about becoming Allman’s seventh wife, he replied, “That’s not what she is becoming. She’s becoming wife Number One. I don’t have a wife, I haven’t had one for years.”

And there you have it folks: that is the smoothness that probably got Gregg Allman all the girls back in the hey-days, and apparently these days too.

I don’t know if it’s his slow drawl, long hair or wrinkly skin that got her, but maybe the fact that he is the founder of one of the greatest rock and blues bands in American history was a factor in his charm. Yeah, I guess I would go for him too.

Check out part of Morgan’s interview here.

Also, if you are interested, here is one of Allman’s greatest, early songs. It just wouldn’t sound the same to replace “Melissa” with “Shannon,” though.

And more:
"One Way Out," "Whipping Post," "Ramblin' Man," "Blue Sky," "Midnight Rider," "Revival," "Jessica," "Statesboro Blues," "Southbound," "Ain't Wastin' Time No More," "Little Martha," "Crazy Love," "Wasted Words," "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," "Done Somebody Wrong," and "Blind Love."