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Duane Allman did not live long – he was only 24 years old when he died in a motorcycle accident in 1971. But he has stuffed these years with a visionary guitar game, which is worth several lives. With the Allman Brothers band, he traveled all the dirty streets of American music: Modaler Jazz, Blues, Country, psychedelic Southern Juke-Joint-Rock.
As a teenager in Florida, he learned his Gibson Les Paul by playing to his Robert Johnson and Chuck Berry Platten. He first made a name for himself as Sideman, especially through his Muscle Shoals Soul sessions with Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin. But in 1969 he founded the ABB with his little brother Gregg. When the musicians jammed for the first time, Duane said to them: “Anyone who doesn’t want to be in my band has to fight their way to the door.”
His ultimate statement: In the Fillmore East, he improvised in the spell by John Coltrane and Miles Davis, from the Bottleneck explosion of the “Statesboro Blues” to the 19-minute Jam “You Don’t Love Me”. But Duane also stopped by Derek and the Dominos at the Miami sessions for Layla, began playing with Eric Clapton and wrote impulsively story, especially with his high slide screens in the title song.
Duane Allman got off the street too early – but in his music the path continues
His symbolic farewell was the two -minute, down -to -earth lullaby “Little Martha”. The notes of “Little Martha” are engraved on his tombstone. Duane Allman got off the street too early – but in his music the path continues.
After Duane’s death in 1971, the band continued as a lead guitarist with Dickey Betts and made successes such as “Ramblin ‘Man” and “Jessica”. His roots were in jazz, and his influence is to listen to all Southern rock groups that followed the Allman Brothers.
Born: 1943. Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Goldtop (1957).
The most important tracks: “Statesboro Blues”, “You Don’t Love Me”, “Whipping Post”