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    • May 14, 2016
    "Midnight Rider" songwriter Gregg Allman receives an honorary doctorate of humanities at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. The degree is presented to him by former president Jimmy Carter, who delivers the commencement speech
    Aug 5, 2016
    "Midnight Rider" songwriter Gregg Allman, hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, cancels all appearance through mid-October
    Oct 29, 2016
    Gregg Allman plays what proves to be his final concert during the Laid Back Festival at the Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta. It marks his last public performance of "Midnight Rider," an Allman Brothers Band song that became a country hit when it was remade by Willie Nelson
    Nov 9, 2016
    "Midnight Rider" songwriter Gregg Allman cancels the rest of his tour dates for 2016 over a vocal issue
    May 27, 2017
    Gregg Allman dies at his home in Savannah, Georgia. A co-founder of The Allman Brothers Band, he authored "Midnight Rider," which became a country hit after Willie Nelson covered it for the movie "The Electric Horseman"
    Dec 18, 2017
    Glen Campbell is remembered on the ABC special "The Year 2017 In Memoriam" by Darius Rucker, Dolly Parton, Alice Cooper, Hunter Hayes and Brad Paisley, who compares Campbell's voice to "red velvet cake." Other honorees include Mary Tyler Moore, Gregg Allman, Hugh Hefner, Chuck Berry and Tom Petty
    Dec 8, 2022
    Old Dominion, Brothers Osborne, Charles Kelley, Gavin DeGraw, Lucie Silvas, Jackson Dean and Kameron Marlowe take part in a 75th birthday tribute to the late Gregg Allman at New York's Beacon Theatre. The night ends with the entire cast covering "Midnight Rider"
    Jun 29, 2023
    Big Loud releases Morgan Wallen's "Everything I Love" to radio. Gregg Allman receives a writing credit, thanks to a "one more silver dollar" section that borrows from his Southern rock classic "Midnight Rider"
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