THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND have issued a statement on the passing of the band’s founding member Dickey Betts. Dickey died Thursday morning (April 18) at the age of 80. The cause was cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Betts‘s manager David Spero confirmed to Rolling Stone. In their statement, THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND wrote: “With deep sadness THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND learned today that founding member Dickey Betts has passed away peacefully in his …