Playing together — Clapton on Brownie, the 1956 Fender Stratocaster he’d purchased in 1967 during his tenure with Cream; Allman with his gold-top 1957 Gibson Les Paul — the two guitarists ...

From a guitarist's perspective, however, Delaney's ultimate trick was persuading some of rock's greatest players — Clapton, Harrison, Duane Allman, and Jimi Hendrix — to take time off from ...

“But that's literally the Duane Allman slide, and it's real glass. It's not like the Pyrex thing that people do now. And so I got a free slide with my sweet Jazzmaster.” ...

Prior to the album’s release in 1973, the band lost founding member Duane Allman and, bassist Berry Oakley, both killed in motorcycle accidents. Inevitably, drugs helped them through.

But when Clarence Leonidas “Leo” Fender ’s eponymous company released the Fender Stratocaster 70 years ago, it forever changed popular music. Fender, born in 1909, began tinkering with ...

Dickey Betts, a honky-tonk hell raiser who, as a guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band, traded fiery licks with Duane Allman in the band’s early-1970s heyday, and who went on to write some of ...