Gregg Allman, co-founder of Southern rock's The Allman Brothers Band, was buried in 2017 at a Rose Hill Cemetery grave in Macon, Ga. near brother Duane Allman.

On Nov. 2, 1972, the Allman Brothers Band made their live debut with a new lineup. Duane Allman, the band’s transcendent guitarist and leader, had died a year earlier in a motorcycle accident ...

Though Duane couldn't open a slot in the Allman Brothers Band, he helped Connell hook up with keyboardist-singer Bobby Whitlock, who'd begun a solo career after years with Derek and the Dominos ...

Yet Duane Allman — who died about a month shy of his 25 th birthday, on October 29, 1971, 35 years ago — was one of the most influential guitar players of his generation.

Tuscaloosa Bill Connell didn't live to see his book "Allman Joy: Keeping the Beat with Duane and Gregg" published, but did get to see a manuscript.

Rick Derringer, seen left performing in 1976, told GP his slide playing proved influential to Duane Allman, shown right using a steel slide on an acoustic guitar, October 17, 1970.. | Credit: ...

Gov’t Mule’s Warren Haynes Muses on Duane Allman’s 1957 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop Guitar, ... Allman’s history with the instrument began in the late-1960s when he purchased the axe.

By then Duane had made a name for himself as the Allman Brothers Band’s hot-shot slide guitarist. If there was one player in rock who could give Winter a run for his money, it was him.