industry's biggest artists and acts like a wreath of franklin wilson pickett the osmonds tom jones the allman brothers and paul i guess that's just to name a few ricks one of a kind stores the subject bill a major documentary appropriately titled muscle shoals he's also author of a book called hell bent off for fame he received the highest honor you can get a lifetime achievement award at the twenty fourteen grammys congratulations thank you sir thank you very much let's go back a little fuel beginnings how did the how did you come to the music business well my mother and father divorced when i was very small five years old or. so i begin to. way and around the community and so forth and so we had we had a bunch of pickers and muscle shows that i became acquainted with and songwriters billy cheryl who later became. the head of in our at c.b.s. records in the nashville what took you out of being a musician to being a producer why did you want to produce the question well i want to make more money . so i wanted to. produce records and i felt like being a musician and songwriter and a publisher and all t

in those days, early part of the 19th century, cemeteries were parks but as a matter fact the allman brothers to spend time in rose hill. some of their songs come from characters that they found here in rose hill, right around this corner writer is martha, little martha, one of the songs are you can see it right there, you can see little martha on the top of the tombstone. that was one of the songs. and they talked, played songs a lot about the railroad and getting on the railroad and leaving and all that. well, the railroad runs right next to rose hill here. and, of course, when duane allman, berry oakley, members of the band unfortunate died in a motorcycle wrecks here in macon, they were also buried here. ♪ >> one of the interesting stories that has a current nature to it is the story of the tracy them here in macon, georgia. tracy junior talks about his life. he was killed at vicksburg. he was a brigadier general and is buried here in rose hill. his father was the second mayor of macon in 1825, and actually hosted general lafayette when he came through macon at about the same time, 1825.

it's not the allman brothers or her band or my band.in 1999 at age 20 he was made a permanent member of the allmans bus just this last year he announced this would be the last year with the allmans. >> i think even in the last few days greg said this is it. >> greg was ready too. >> we'll see. with that band -- >> you never know. >> i would never bet on it one way or another. it's full of surprises. i thought it was done ten times in the 15 years i was there and it would come roaring back. >> the tedeschi trucks band are on tour again behind their new album "a made up mind." when the couple who have been married 12 years now hit the road their relatives help out with the two kids. >> the hardest change for me as a mom is now the two of us are gone and so our kids are feeling that a little bit differently. >> my mom and dad live four doors down from us and when we hit the road she moves into our house, my brother and his wife and baby are -- >> 12 houses up. >> it's a little village. the trucks are taking over bringing property values do