RIP Duane Allman

[GnLguy]

October 29 1971 5:44pm

Duane Allman was traveling west on Hillcrest Avenue through the Bartlett Avenue intersection in Macon Georgia. A truck, driven by Charles Wertz, entered the intersection and turned north from Hillcrest onto Bartlett. Allman lost control of his motorcycle shortly thereafter and skidded about 90 feet across the intersection’s center line
3 hours later he was pronounced dead at Middle Georgia Medical Center

55 years after his death, Duane is typically ranked as #2 in Rolling Stone top 100 guitarists, 2nd only behind Jimi Hendrix. Not bad for someone who had only played guitar for10 years when he was killed
Duane had redefined slide guitar at the time, taking from the Elmore James & Muddy Waters approach to what we hear on the early Allman Brothers albums
According to Jimmy Johnson , a Fame Studio session guitarist, Duane invented Southern rock with his arrangement & solo on Wilson Pickett’s version of Hey Jude. A solo that made Eric Clapton pull his car to the roadside to listen; EC would later call recording execs in New York to ask who the guitarist was.
Duane played on countless sessions with Aretha Franklin, Boz Skaggs, Clarence Carter and yes, even Lulu if you remember her.
Besides founding the Allman Brothers Band, his greatest accomplishment was probably his involvement with Eric Clapton on the Layla album. It was Duane that morphed the opening lick of As The Years Go Passing By by Albert King to become what we know as Layla
The live version of Liz Reed of the Fillmore album – everything after Gregg’s organ solo is Duane. I’ve listened to that countless times, amazed each time especially considering that he was only 24 when it was recorded

RIP Brother Duane

[Michael Krailo]

I thought Duane came back to life for a minute there.

Root note patterns >>> CAGED shapes >>> TRIAD'S. Just put in the work and watch your guitar skills soar.

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