Minor musical insight: Albert rules

Just listening again, for perhaps the 500th time, to the Allman Bros. version of T-Bone's "Stormy Monday" from the seminal Live at Fillmore East. This is a record I've been listening to literally since 1976, but until this morning, 31 years later, I never noticed how much Duane's solos on slow blues (on this tune, particularly the last chorus of the last solo before the last verse) build out of Albert King's vocabulary. Though, in my youth, BB (and even Freddie) were more frequently cited as influences on the white blues players, I continue in my seniority to hear Albert in the greatest of the younger blues guys, including especially Buddy Guy, Hendrix, Stevie Ray, and now, I realize, Duane as well.

Thanks, Albert.


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