Song · Gregg Allman
“My Only True Friend” by Gregg Allman
“My Only True Friend” by Gregg Allman appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2017 and 2019. Its best result is #10 on the WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #102 indie & aaa song of 2017 and #2,285 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"My Only True Friend" opens Southern Blood, the last studio album Gregg Allman made, which Rounder Records released on September 8, 2017, a few months after his death on May 27. It served as the lead single and stands as the album's lone original, since everything else on it is a cover. Allman wrote it with Scott Sharrard, a guitarist and bandleader.
Allman was ill when he recorded it, and the song stares straight at that: a slow reckoning with time running out that never stoops to self-pity. The sharpest twist is in the writing. Sharrard secretly framed the words as if Duane Allman, Gregg's late brother, were speaking to him, so the goodbye doubles as a conversation between brothers. It has drawn praise as hauntingly beautiful, and a video of Allman playing alongside other musicians goes with it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 10 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2017 | 90 |
| 2017 | 45 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2017 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 425 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 425 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
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