I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s mystery artists had failed at making a name for himself in the music business and was about to give up when his brother called looking for a new singer for his band.  Any guess who the artist or band might be??

We’ll start with the guy throwing in the towel.  That would have been a young Gregg Allman. Gregg had failed to make a name for himself as a musician during a late-1960s stint in Los Angeles and was on the verge of quitting music altogether when his brother Duane Allman called and said his new band needed a vocalist. Gregg, the group's only songwriter at the time, was commissioned to create songs that would fit into the context of the new band, and in the next five days he wrote several, including tonight’s featured song "Whipping Post".

Gregg's travails in the music business would provide the thematic inspiration for the new song, which was written quickly on an ironing board cover. He later said: "It came so fast. I didn't even have a chance to get the paper out. That's the way the good songs come—they just hit you like a ton of bricks."