Travis Denning feels he owes The Allman Brothers for his music career. He says he probably would’ve never picked up a guitar if it weren’t for this iconic band and their different influences.

“When I first started playing guitar, I loved classic rock. I loved AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, I mean those kinds of bands. The more I played guitar, you know the more and more I wanted to hear it faster and louder, so I got into Metallica and I got into Motorhead and Slayer,” says Travis. “I fell in love with singer-songwriters. I fell in love with John Mayer. I fell in love with Neil Young and Amos Lee. It’s so funny telling that story that people go, ‘Man. You’re all over the place with your music.’ I think the reason I was able to do that is because I always looked to the cornerstone of what I loved which was The Allman Brothers Band, and they did the same thing. They had jazz. They had blues. They had country music. They had folk. They had so much that they combined to create this genre called Southern Rock, which is still the fiber of my being.”

Travis will often break out into an Allman Brothers song, like “Whipping Post,” while in concert.

The pinnacle of everything I am musically will forever be The Allman Brothers Band. I doubt I would’ve ever picked up a guitar without them. pic.twitter.com/MKyM55VP5g

— Travis Denning (@Travis_Denning) October 30, 2018

Travis, who is making his way up the country charts with “David Ashley Parker From Powder Springs,” is on the Hallelujah Nights Tour with LANCO.