Musically speaking, they were an all-time helluva group, led by a guy who understood 11/4 time but couldn't sing and his brother who did not but could. The latter, improbably, wrote the epic 11/4 riff that stands as one of their hall of fame moments. It's a song that uses literal torture as a simile for emotional torture, and it's a fitting epitaph for one of the most soulful, nimble, understated singers of the Southern rock era. His life was marked by almost unimaginable tragedy, and he chronicled his journey with a half-century's worth of dark, world-weary and beautiful performances. MusicSET: "GREGG ALLMAN: Southern Rock's Soulful Frontman"... Three particular things to remember about the singer of "MIDNIGHT RIDER": His band was racially integrated, both in personnel and the music it chose to play, and in the deep South of the 1970s, that mattered ("an act of remarkable dissent," the NEW YORKER's AMANDA PETRUSICH calls it). The ALLMAN BROTHERS' songs resisted political interpretation and the band resisted the Confederate symbolism that some of its peers embraced. The Allmans were labeled Southern rock because everything has to be called something, but the music drew deeply on blues, jazz, soul, rock and much more... Bonus fourth thing: The album he made with then-wife CHER in 1977 was a critical and commercial flop but it wasn't as bad as advertised... Politics starts at home. Even hardcore and heavy-metal homes... CHANCE THE RAPPER, whose father has worked for both BARACK OBAMA and RAHM EMANUEL, says he would "never" run for office but that doesn't mean he isn't constantly thinking about politics... TIDAL goes through CEOs like I go through LALOO's deep chocolate ice cream... RIP MARCUS INTALEX and HARRY ANGER.