Bill Text: GA SR1075 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: CSA Army of Tennessee Highway; dedicate

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-05-24 - Act 436 [SR1075 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2009-SR1075-Amended.html

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10 AM 34 0411

ADOPTED
Senator Brown of the 26th and Mullis of the 53rd offered the following amendment:

Amend the Senate Transportation Committee substitute to SR 1075 (LC 34 2634S) by inserting between lines 138 and 139 the following:

WHEREAS, in 1969, a group of young but already seasoned and incredibly talented musicians, including guitarist Duane Allman, bassist Berry Oakley, vocalist and organist Gregg Allman, guitarist Dickey Betts, percussionist Butch Trucks, and percussionist Jaimoe, formed the Allman Brothers Band and established the band's home in Macon; and

WHEREAS, at now legendary jam sessions at their initial base on College Street, their later home at the "Big House" on Vineville Avenue, and other locations in and around Macon, including Rose Hill Cemetery and a farm known as Idlewild South, the band fused elements of blues, jazz, rock, and country music to create a musical genre now known and loved as "southern rock" and became one of the most exciting groups of performers ever to take the stage; and

WHEREAS, the incomparable and wide-ranging talents, creativity, inspiration, soulfulness, and dedication of the Allman Brothers Band remain evidenced in legacies of live performances and studio recordings of such songs and compositions as "Statesboro Blues," "Dreams," "Midnight Rider," "Whipping Post," "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," "Mountain Jam," "Blue Sky," "Melissa," "One Way Out", "Hot 'Lanta," and "Little Martha"; and

WHEREAS, Duane Allman's all too brief life was tragically ended at age 24 by a motorcycle accident on a street in Macon on October 29, 1971; and

WHEREAS, it is only fitting and proper that his life and memory be honored by this state and in the community which the band graced with their gifts and spirits.

PART IX

By inserting between lines 164 and 165 the following:
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the portion of State Highway 19 from its intersection with Pio Nono Avenue to its intersection with New Street in the City of Macon is dedicated as Duane Allman Boulevard.
By deleting "and" on line 171 and inserting before the period on line 172 the following:
, and the family of Duane Allman