Butch Trucks, Allman Brothers Band drummer, dies at 69

Credit: The Allman Brothers Museum at the Big House

Butch Trucks, one of the founding drummers in the legendary Macon-based Allman Brothers Band, has died, an official from the Allman Brothers Museum confirmed.  He was 69.

Page Stallings, Trucks' booking agent, said Trucks died Tuesday at his home in West Palm Beach, Florida. Stallings didn't know the cause of death.