Derek Trucks Reflects on Duane Allman's Legacy

"Duane is a seminal figure like Charlie Christian or Wes Montgomery � a guy who came along at exactly the point where there was a major change in music, and fell into the center of it," Trucks said.

"For electric slide you've gotta go back to Elmore James, and Duane was really that next step. He had learned the basics and was playing with some of the best R&B musicians in the world in the studio, and at the same time was listening to Miles Davis' [early fusion masterpiece] Bitches Brew and Jimi Hendrix. He had a lot of influences, but Duane was the first guy to take that Elmore sound and crack it wide open in a way that opened the door to his sound for guitar players and for people in general. And when somebody comes along and takes what comes before them and moves it ahead the way Duane did, the bar is set."