Georgia couple's encounter with Gregg Allman

ATLANTA — A Georgia family is remembering the late Gregg Allman, who gave family members the surprise of a lifetime when he crashed an engagement party over Labor Day weekend last year.

Kathleen and Wells Anderson told People magazine they met Allman when he came to the party that was being held for a couple they knew, to listen to a band called Bloodkin.

“At the time, I said, ‘There’s no way he’s coming,'” Wells Anderson said. “Another buddy said if it happened, we would go down in history as having the best block party ever.”

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Allman in fact showed up, and stayed for about four hours listening to the band. The Andersons said he kept his distance from the 40 or so other guests.

“He wasn’t partying or carrying on. He was just listening to the band,” Kathleen Anderson said.

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The late musician requested to meet the soon-to-be-married couple to thank them for letting him crash their party, and Kathleen Anderson told People she finally got her chance to meet Allman as well.

“I introduced myself and our son Sam, who was 8 then,” she said. “Gregg was a man of few words but he shook Sam’s hand.”

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