For sure, the South is on the rise again—and has obviously changed the sound of American music. In 1954 a white truck driver from Mississippi named Elvis fooled around with an old blues number, and the resultant blend of C&W and blues became one of the dominant sounds of rock and roll. Elvis was just the tip of the iceberg though—Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash all had...

This set attempts to set Duane Allman's career in perspective by gathering an extremely varied set of performances, many of them session jobs where Duane basically functioned as just one of the studio cats backing up an established star on his or her next hit single, or an aspiring artist being given the big production on maiden voyage. It's clear now that Duane Allman was one of the true innovato...