Phil Walden

Phil Walden

Phil Walden (January 11 1940 – April 23, 2006) was co-founder of the Macon, Georgia-based Capricorn Records with his younger brother Alan Walden.

He graduated from Mercer University where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta. Walden served as Otis Redding’s manager from 1959 until Redding's death in 1967. Walden hosted one of Redding's first shows at the Phi Delta Theta lodge in the sixties. He later helped launch the career of the Allman Brothers Band.

Walden died of cancer at the age of 66.

External links

* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/arts/music/26walden.html? Obituary] in the New York Times
* [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theallmanbrothersband/articles/story/10107379/southern_rock_pioneer_walden_dies Obituary] in Rolling Stone Magazine


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