They have three children.Īlan and his wife Rebecca Blumenstein reside in New Jersey with their three children.Music writer Paul catches up with the legendary band in this entertaining, compulsively readable oral history of the Allman Brothers. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Rebecca Blumenstein. Rolling Stone’s David Browne said, “ Though they honor the music, Friends of the Brothers never feel like a ‘tribute band.’ They play the songs as if they’d written them.”He is a regular guest on radio shows and a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Guitar World, and other publications. He also founded Friends of the Brothers, the premier celebration of the music of the Allman Brothers Band, featuring members of the Dickey Betts, Jaimoe and Gregg Allman bands. That band’s debut CD Beijing Blues was an East/West fusion that earned praise from ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and the Allman Brothers Band’s Warren Haynes. It was optioned for film development by Ivan Reitman’s Montecito Productions. His first book, Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues and Becoming a Star in Beijing was hailed by USA Today as a “big–hearted memoir with emotional depth.” It is about his experiences raising three American children in Beijing and Paul’s unlikely journey to becoming a Chinese music star, fronting the blues band Woodie Alan, Beijing’s 2008 Band of the Year. Texas Flood has been optioned and is being developed for both documentary and feature films. His last two books have been instant New York Times bestsellers: Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan and One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band. “If you want to know the real deal, read Alan Paul.” ― Oteil Burbridge, Allman Brothers BandĪlan Paul is an author, journalist and musician.
“No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul.” ― Warren Haynes, Allman Brothers Band “Alan Paul is rock’s finest narrative storyteller.” – Ted Drozdowski, Premier Guitar
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