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This is one of my favorite things to do, I love the Blues. The delta blues had a lot of influence on a lot of the Bluesmen of today and yesteryear. Take the Allman Brothers band of Macon Georgia was one of the best at the Blues. They had the delta influence, and the guitar Wizardry of Duwayne Allman, an absolute total package, The Allman Brothers Band were on the fore front of Rock-a- Billy Blues. The bottle neck in fact a Coricidin D cold remedy bottle was the weapon of choice for this slide blues man. He played the Slide guitar with a distinct sound that was second to none.

I can remember going to Piedmont Park in Atlanta Ga, and the Allman Brothers w3ould pull up with a rig and set up on the flat bed trailer and do free concerts for the patrons of the park. This act was done several time in my life, It wasn’t a one time thing. When they came out with their first album it was an instant hit, The local band of the time were busy playing the surf music and when the Allman Brothers hit the air waves it was all over for the surfer boys.

After Duwayne was killed in a motorcycle accident the band grieved for a while and finally Gregg Allman Decided that Duwayne would not want them sitting on their duffs and not playing the blues. They struggled for a while and Dickie Betts took over the lead guitar of the group and they got back in the swing of their music. But they still didn’t have that Allman brothers sound with Duwayne.

The Allman Brothers still tour a little today and Gregg has finally learned to sing the blues, but their time was when Duwayne was alive and laying down tracks with greats like Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Issac Hayes, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and list goes on and on and on. Heres to you Duwayne You are the man!!