In 2017, Dickey Betts put his own band together called The Dickey Betts Band, and they performed songs from the Allman Brothers’ catalogue. “The fans are telling me how much interest there is, and I am the guy now who can produce this music because I wrote half of it and participated in all of it,” he told Billboard in June 2018. The band featured Dickey’s son, Duane Betts, who helped in performing the classics. “My son kind of had to show me what I used to do and I had to re-learn it,” Dickey told the publication. The guitar-playing veteran was focused on getting back to form, but was realistic about his expectations. “I feel kinda like Tiger Woods coming back,” he told Dan Rather while sitting down for an interview for AXS TV in 2018. “I’m really trying to play par, ya know. I don’t think you ever quite feel like you’re there,” Dickey added.
Initially, Dickey had no interest in being in charge of the Allman Brothers Band’s legacy. “I actually never wanted to be the leader,” he told Guitar Player magazine in 2019 (via Guitar.com). It appeared that Dickey’s outlook changed following the death of Gregg Allman in 2017. Even though the pair had their differences over the years, they remained close at the end of Allman’s life. “In the end, when he got really sick, of course I called him about every other day,” Dickey told Billboard in June 2018.
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