When people list their favorite guitarists, an often overlooked name is Duane Allman. Allman was a brilliant blues guitarist, as evidenced by the video below. He died just a few months after this concert, killed in a motorcycle accident at the age of 24.
A little known fact is that Duane Allman played half of the guitar parts on Eric Clapton’s Layla. Clapton played all the Fender parts, Allman played all the Gibson parts.
Enjoy…
“Don’t Keep Me Wonderin'”, “Dreams”, “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed”, “Whipping Post”. Unbelievable to see this after all these years!
A timely post since @alpaul has just released his great biography of the Allman Brothers Band entitled “One Way Out” this week.
I would love to read that!!!! Thanks, Doug.
I don’t know that Duane was underrated. He always ranked very high up in the top 10 in most of the polls, amongst my guitarist accomplices and others. He was a god when I seas in high school. for underrated guitar gods, check out the fantastic new Mike Bloomfield anthology, maybe the best white blues guitarist ever. Too bad the heroin got him. duane weren’t no angel either.
Just beautiful. I’ve seen the Brothers many times, but sadly, I am too young to have seen them with Duane or Berry. What a treat this is. Thanks.