A Brother’s Revival will bring the music of The Allman Brothers Band to Stroudsburg’s Sherman Theater, located on Main Street, for a performance on April 20.

The show will include tracks such as “Whipping Post”- immortalized with a near-23-minute version on 1971 live set “At Fillmore East” - “One Way Out” and “Ramblin’ Man.” The latter hit single appeared on 1973’s chart-topping “Brothers and Sisters” album.

David “Rook” Goldflies, Allman Brothers bassist from the late 1970s to early 1980s, started A Brother’s Revival in 2019, five years after The Allman Brothers Band wrapped its 45-year run. The band leader plays bass and violin, plus contributes vocals.

The current lineup also features: Mike Kach, keyboardist and vocalist in Allman Brothers founding member Dickey Betts’ Great Southern band; Dan Goldberg and Jack Judge, drums; Eric Cohen, guitar; and Chris Anderson, formerly of the Outlaws, guitar and vocals.

As he considered forming a group to play Allman Brothers music, Goldflies realized “I had a body of knowledge about what it meant to play that music. It’s not entirely in the notes. There is an intensity and focus that must be achieved for the music to mean something.”

Each night A Brother’s Revival takes the stage, the bassist recalls lessons learned from his Allman Brothers days. “I learned about maintaining stamina on a demanding tour schedule and how to bring the music to life night after night.

“Some say I am a demanding band leader,” he continued, “but there is no halfway in real rock ’n’ roll. We work hard to make the show rekindle the fire of the original band.”

Goldflies, who has pondered calling his band A Brother’s Survival, takes pride in “doing my best to carry on the legacy and tradition of the band that started Southern rock.”

A musician for 63 years, Goldflies grew up in Oxford, Ohio. At age 4, he received violin lessons from his grandfather, a 1920s band leader and violinist. When he was 14, Goldflies played electric bass in a band with his father, who played saxophone and clarinet.

“I got my start playing gigs in the ‘animal circuit’ at Elks, Moose and Eagles lodges,” said Goldflies, who resides in Panama City Beach, Florida, and Taos, New Mexico.

Goldflies, whose sister turned him on to Led Zeppelin, became a progressive rock fan. He learned to play the music of acts such as Yes, Genesis and The Allman Brothers Band.

Around age 18, Goldflies attended a Chick Corea/Return to Forever concert. “That show changed me forever. I saw something that showed me what was, musically, possible and I just wanted to be part of that kind of music.”

Goldflies’ first big music-industry break came when Bill Bartlett, of short-lived rock band The Lemon Pipers (“Green Tambourine”), asked him to play in his group StarStruck.

“Bill was a walking school in rockabilly and acid rock. Playing with Bill moved my rock bass playing forward. I found myself at the Cleveland Recording Company cutting a track that became iconic: ‘Black Betty,’ released on an album by Ram Jam, also Bill’s group.”

Goldflies, who added “Black Betty” to the Brother’s Revival set list in 2023, then played with Betts’ Great Southern following an Indiana-barn chance meeting with future Allman Brothers drummer David Toler. Goldflies’ Allman Brothers stint followed shortly thereafter.

“Dickey pushed his players, and his intensity trained me for what would come next,” said Goldflies, a player on “Atlanta’s Burning Down,” Betts’ 1978 album with Great Southern. “Learning to feel comfortable on a large stage took a little while.”

Three Allman Brothers albums featured Goldflies: 1979’s “Enlightened Rogues” which included “Pegasus,” hit single “Crazy Love” and a track Goldflies co-wrote with Betts, “Try It One More Time”; 1980s “Reach For the Sky”; and 1981’s “Brothers of the Road.”

Of The Allman Brothers Band’s original members, only Betts and Jai “Jaimoe” Johanson survive. Brothers Duane and Gregg Allman passed on in 1971 and 2017, respectively, with Berry Oakley and Butch Trucks passing on in 1972 and 2017, respectively.

Goldflies, in his post-Allman Brothers years, wrote, recorded and released three albums: the David Goldflies Group’s “One Tan Arm,” a 1990s jazz-fusion set with Miles Osland; the Allman Goldflies Band’s “Second Chance,” a 2018 southern-rock album; and “Cocoa Brown & Rust,” a 2021 singer-songwriter folk set recorded under the moniker GoldFlece.

The Allman Goldflies Band featured longtime friend Gary Allman, Duane and Gregg‘s cousin. The Brother‘s Revival show includes “Second Chance” track “Fadiddle.”

Among other endeavors, Goldflies has played bass with The Panama City Symphony Orchestra since 2006. This year, the group’s Discover Music program for children - under the direction of maestro Sergey Bogza - features GoldFlece classical piece “The Hunt.”

Considering his career, “very little compares to my experience with The Allman Brothers Band,” Goldflies said. One highlight, he added, was working with famed producer Tom Dowd, who collaborated with a who’s who of blues, jazz, pop, rock and soul artists.

Looking to the future, “I’m glad I am still able to perform this music,” said Goldflies, currently teaching himself about various modern audio-recording technologies. “I guess I’ll keep on pickin’ and writing. Music is infinite. I don’t think I’ll ever reach the end.”