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While his recording career only lasted a little more than six years ('66-'71), Duane Allman's playing was heard not only with the Allman Brothers Band, but on a variety of important records by other artists as well. Hence this posthumous 1972 double-album collection, which--besides five Allman Brothers tracks--includes many memorable solos by the distinctive slide guitarist from sessions at the fabled Fame and Muscle Shoals studios. Highlights include soul versions of "Hey Jude" (Wilson Pickett), "The Weight" (Aretha Franklin), and "Games People Play" (King Curtis), as well as the time-stopping "Somebody Loan Me a Dime" (Boz Scaggs) and Derek and the Dominoes' classic, "Layla." --Billy Altman

This double album was the first fully annotated rock anthology, complete with biographical essay and song analysis. It probably would have succeeded regardless, but the presence of Derek and the Dominos' "Layla," at just the point that it was becoming a rock standard helped push the sales even higher. The highlights, electric and acoustic, are too numerous to detail — "Goin' Down Slow," a glorious finished fragment from Duane Allman's attempted solo album; the B.B. King medley played by the pre-Allman Brothers Band, and the Hour Glass in one of their few unfettered trips into the studio. There are also shining moments playing behind others, including "The Weight" by Aretha Franklin and "Hey Jude" by Wilson Pickett, plus work with King Curtis (on whose "Games People Play" listeners hear Allman playing an electric sitar). Other highlights include Cowboy, Johnny Jenkins ("Rollin' Stone"), John Hammond ("Shake for Me"), Boz Scaggs, the 13-minute epic "Loan Me a Dime," and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, rounded out by some great moments with the Allman Brothers Band.