Jackson Browne took to Facebook to share his memory of the late Gregg Allman, calling the Allman Brothers bandmember “one of the most gifted singers in the last fifty years” and detailed his friendship with Allman.

“We became friends in LA in the late sixties when he an Duane were in The Hourglass,” Browne wrote. “He was a blues singer first, and he was so natural, and so soulful, that when he sang songs that were in a major scale, he found all the most soulful and expressive passages through those changes.”

Browne noted that he spoke to Allman the week before he passed. “I got to tell him how much his music and his friendship has meant to me.”

Read the full note below.

Gregg Allman was one of the most gifted singers of the last fifty years. We became friends in LA in the late sixties when he and Duane were in The Hourglass. He was a blues singer first, and he was so natural, and so soulful, that when he sang songs that were written in a major scale, he found all the most soulful and expressive passages through those changes. It was just how he heard it. That’s how it was with my song, These Days. He slowed it down, and felt it deeply, and he made that song twice as good as it was before he sang it.

I got to speak with him in the week before he passed, and I got to tell him how much his music and his friendship has meant to me. He recently recorded one of my early songs, Song For Adam, and he and Don Was sent it to me to sing on, and I did. That song, the way he sang it and where he sang it from – at the end of his life – well, he completed that song, and gave it a resonance and a gravity that could only have been put there by him.

I will miss him. I send my deepest condolences to his family, his bands and crews, and all those who knew him and loved him.