VENICE — In his song, “Ramblin’ Man,” Dickey Betts sang that he was “born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus, rollin’ down Highway 41.”
Soon, a segment of U.S. 41 in Sarasota County could be named after the late guitar legend and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band.
While Betts was actually born in West Palm Beach — and not on a bus — he grew up in Bradenton and made Sarasota County his home for decades. He lived in a large house on the shore of Little Sarasota Bay in Osprey for many years before he died in 2014 at age 80…