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The Allman Brothers Band's excellent festival-closing set at Mountain Jam X has got to make fans wonder why they group is breaking up.

The lineup for the second annual Peach Music Festival at Montage Mountain has been revealed. In addition to two performances from the Allman Brothers Band, fans can count on the Black Crowes, Bob Weir and RatDog and more at the Aug 15-18 outdoor festival.

Rounder Records has assembled and fine-tuned a massive box set of Duane Allman highlights for 'Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective.' The seven-disc box set will be available on March 5. It features 129 songs from his early days as a garage rocker through his time with the Allman Brothers Band.

Next month the Allman Brothers Band will release two live shows from their early '70s height as a southern rock superpower. Recordings from a show played just months after Duane Allman died, and another after the death of Berry Oakley show the group in very different incarnations.

The Allman Brothers Band has survived breakups, bad blood and too many deaths. Over its 43-year history there has been a decade-long hiatus, a contentious split with founding member Dickey Betts and the loss of Duane Allman, Berry Oakley and Allen Woody. Through the good and the bad, Jaimoe has been pounding away at the skins alongside fellow drummer Butch Trucks.