{"id":9664,"date":"2013-05-08T00:29:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9664"},"modified":"2013-05-08T00:29:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:29:24","slug":"duane-allman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/duane-allman\/","title":{"rendered":"DUANE ALLMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"duane-allman-M-Review-No25\"DUANE ALLMAN<\/h1>\n

Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

[Rounder]<\/p>\n

Just how prolific was Duane Allman in his few years? Amazingly so. From the time he first recorded and performed publicly in the mid-\u201960s until his death in 1971 at the age of 24, Duane\u2014older than brother Gregg by a year\u2014was one busy fellow. Attempts have been made through the years to chronicle the work of \u201cSkydog,\u201d as he was called, both within and outside of the Allman Brothers Band, but never as comprehensively as on this seven-disc collection. What\u2019s most remarkable is the consistency of Allman\u2019s playing. Even in the early garage-style recordings he made with pre-ABB bands the Escorts, the Allman Joys and the psychedelic-era Hour Glass, Allman was already displaying a full command of soul and rock guitar, exhibiting an individualistic style\u2014especially on slide\u2014that endeared him to producers and led to work on dozens of sides by the likes of Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Otis Rush and King Curtis. Once the Allman Brothers Band kicked into high gear in 1969, Duane could have easily lessened his workload, but instead, he kept at it, adding licks to recordings by Boz Scaggs, Delaney & Bonnie, and Eric Clapton\u2019s Derek & the Dominos\u2014whose \u201cLayla\u201d remains a high-water mark of both guitarists\u2019 oeuvres. While Skydog <\/i>features some previously unreleased tunes, some of them nice surprises, this package isn\u2019t necessarily aimed at hardcore collectors. Rather, it exists to finally gather up all of the stray tracks and place them in context alongside the cornerstones of the Allman discography. It accomplishes\u00a0that flawlessly. \u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n

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