Statesboro Blues - Allman Brothers Band
Some good licks in the last 90 seconds.
For AUT1, some Friday spanking material:
The most familiar version of the song is by The Allman Brothers Band,[11] as recorded at the Fillmore East in March 1971 and first released on the 1971 album At Fillmore East. This version is famous also for Duane Allman's slide guitar playing, which, as Rolling Stone would write years later, featured "the moaning and squealing opening licks [that] have given fans chills at live shows."[12]
Allman's slide riffs on "Statesboro Blues" have been analyzed and transcribed in guitar magazines many times over[13][14][15][16] and the tones of Allman and Dickey Betts's guitars on the song were hailed by Guitar Player as some of the "50 Greatest Tones of All Time."[17] After Allman's death in a motorcycle accident later that year, the performance was included on the 1972 album Duane Allman: An Anthology. In 2008, Rolling Stone magazine ranked The Allman Brothers Band's version of "Statesboro Blues" as #9 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.[12]
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