Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States of America from 1977 to 1981, has left this strange world for a better place… He was a philanthropist, lover & supporter of music and arts, a warm hearted man, and fan of the Allman Brothers Band.

Rest easy Mr. President Carter ❤️ You’ll be missed!

The documentary “Jimmy Carter – Rock’n’Roll President” is highly recommend:

When you take a closer look at his political career, you’ll notice a dazzling trend: Carter kept company with some of the industry’s most legendary musicians, first as governor of Georgia and then as president.

As a child, Jimmy Carter absorbed the sound of gospel from local singers in Plains, Georgia, and country music from stations he could pick up on a battery radio. That early love of music grew into a lifelong passion for the art form;

Carter’s son Chip recalls in the film that his father never played a musical instrument — unless you count the stereo. “When we had no money at all, dad spent $600 on the best stereo in Plains … and he would let us children play our music on it,” Chip said. “And he would stay in there and learn the songs … It’s one of the ways that he stayed in touch with his children.”

Carter met Capricorn Records co-founder Phil Walden, center, in 1971 when Carter was on a listening tour as governor of Georgia. The rising politician got to know the Southern rock impresario, and when Carter made his run for the presidency, Walden and artists from his label threw their support behind him. “I think he’s just a real fan of the arts,” Walden said in an interview at the time. “He came here one night to a recording session … he befriended these performers and his interest was genuine and they could see that.”

When Carter began his presidential campaign, Gregg Allman and the Allman Brothers Band “helped put me in the White House by raising money when I didn’t have any money,” Carter says in the film. “I was practically a nonentity, but everybody knew the Allman Brothers, particularly the ones that came to their concerts. And, when the Allman Brothers endorsed me all the young people there said, ‘Well, if the Allman Brothers like Jimmy Carter we can vote for him.'”

Carter’s White House was a popular stop for musicians as they cruised through the Beltway on tour. “Various entertainers would come to the White House and sometimes unannounced,” Tom Beard, former deputy assistant to the president, says in the film. The band Crosby, Stills & Nash made their visit in 1977.

The incomparable Aretha Franklin performed at the festivities for three incoming presidents, including Carter’s 1977 inaugural gala. “Paul Simon and Aretha Franklin were two of my favorite performers, so when I got ready for the inaugural performers to be chosen, they were at the top of my list,” Carter says in the documentary.

In 1978, President Carter and the first lady hosted a massive jazz festival at the White House — one Carter introduced as the first of its kind. The event was held in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival, and Carter joined jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach for a performance of “Salt Peanuts.”

Throughout his career as president and beyond, Carter’s passion for music hasn’t wavered. “One of the things that has held America together, when we’ve been together, has been the music that we share and love,” Carter says in “Rock and Roll President.” “I’d say that the common beat that people have within them, a desire for country music or desire for rock, or desire for jazz, or a desire for classical music, is something that binds people together…“