Duane Allman

Duane Allman

Duane Allman was a skinny teenager when he began performing at the famed recording studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in the late 1960s. In September 1969 the Allman Brothers, a band that Duane founded, released their first album. By this time Duane had become a fixture guitar player. He had recorded with numerous artists of various genres, including Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton and King Curtis. It is Duane's guitar riffs that are so memorable in the Clapton/Derek and the Dominoes hit 1972 single, Layla.