Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul is a 2026 American documentary film about the rock musician Gregg Allman. It was directed by James Keach. Gregg Allman was an American singer, songwriter, and musician who played keyboards and guitar. He was best known as a member of the Allman Brothers Band, which he co-founded with his older brother Duane Allman. Gregg Allman also had a solo career leading his own bands.
This visionary music documentary traces the turbulent, transcendent life of Gregg Allman — from a childhood ruptured by his father’s murder to the soulful emergence that reshaped American music. Through archival recordings, candid interviews, and electric performances, the film follows Gregg’s musical awakening amid the blues he worshipped, the creation of the Allman Brothers Band with his brother, Duane that would birth Southern Rock, and the grief that followed Duane’s fatal motorcycle crash.
The Music of My Soul explores Gregg’s lifelong battle with addiction, his seven marriages (including his high-profile union with Cher), and the late-life sobriety that allowed him to reckon with his past. The film examines not just the artist’s private wounds but the wider American psyche — race, loss, longing, and reinvention — during Gregg’s lifetime. Musicians, friends, and family illuminate how an integrated band in the segregated South challenged boundaries while forging a sound that was both raw and redemptive.
