Tragically, Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident just three months after “Push Push” and “At Fillmore East” were released. He was just 24. In an interview with rock magazine Creem ...

Duane Allman’s tragic death at 24 in an October 1971 motorcycle accident in Macon thrust Betts into a more prominent role in the group as songwriter, instrumentalist and sometime lead vocalist.

When Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1971, not only did the world lose a musician who (after Elmore James) did for slide guitar what electricity did for blues, the Allman ...