I am 48 and have listened to this song since I was 17 (really 13-14) and it still takes me back to the best place! Up on that mountain, us “kids” running around those woods, the adults talking & laughing around the fire, passing to the left, to the right, good people. A time when life was…simpler. I will never let go of those days…it’s all I have now. Those folks sitting around the fire are all gone now, and so its the memories that I still have. May they never leave me. Different generations yet always still a bridge remains. Be well Susan Denton…Ian Rhein Never forgotten “Uncle Michael” you played this tune so well…please take care of Dad. I love you & miss you both very much. A son and nephew still waiting to see you both.
I picked up the guitar after hearing Duane, and the guitar yelled, 'put me down and don't ever touch me again you don't have a clue'!! And the music world dodged a big bullet that day.
There's a line in the movie Tombstone, when Wyatt and his posse split up. In saying goodbye, one says to Wyatt "I aint got the words." Seems to apply for a lot of really, really REALLY good songs, like this one!
Is there any style of music he could not play? Jazz, rock and roll, the Founder of Southern Rock, and now country, cowboy. Man this guy sounds great on everything! It was a sad day for music when we lost Duane.
As a teen I grew up in Jax watching All these guys from the beginning and their music has been a tremendous influence on my life. Later in life this is the song I sang to both my kids as their lullaby, every night to put them to sleep. Today I sing it to my grandson and he nods out peacefully responding the same way my kids did! It's a beautiful song and an intricate part of our lives!
Love ❤️ this song 🎼Cowboy was a great band they have about four albums out that are fantastic and beautiful From the early 70s incorporating Duane into this song
This is a sweet song, but 1971 was not a simpler or gentler time: nostalgia just makes it seem so Remember Viet Nam? Nixon? Segregation? Love this song, but be careful.
Caleb Heney segregation was ended officially in 1964 with the Civil Rights Act. Then the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the Fair Housing Act in 1967 etc. Although school segregation was outlawed by the Warren Court In 1954 in the Case Brown vs. Board of Education, although it still exists in some areas.
Duane left us with so much love and beautiful music. Every note he played was special and poignant. There will never be another slide player like him he had the special touch: great intonation with the right overtones. He really never left us because we have his music and the music is imperishable :)
@@randysmith7652 yes it was Gregg who went out brought Duane his meds in a glass coriciden bottle. Duane dumped out the meds and put the bottle on his left ring finger and played along with "Statesboro Blues" He called Gregg a short time later on and told Gregg to get over here I gotta show you this!. Gregg walks in, Duane is playing slide and Gregg realized how natural he was picking it up as quick as he did. Duane had a great ear for music, he got right on that tune which became their signature tune. Nobody played Statesboro blues wit such power and grace as the ABB
Duane had just left rehab with plans to add a Tower of Power horn section. He wanted to record a tribute album to Coltrane and Miles. Duane was still getting better. He was starting to write songs and he had a voice as good as his brother. He would have gone on to cement his ownership of GOAT and the most important session guitarist in any style.
I see why Galadrielle Allman chose this as the title for her book. Just finished it, still sad, thought I'd come over to hear Duane play. Miss you forever, Skydog.
My exact sentiments... The best, maybe most forgotten slide player to ever walk this earth, some of us fortunate one's will never forget the feeling and soul you played with. yes Miss you forever Skydog
have you read Gregg's autobiography? He says he knows Duane heard him when he was doing certain songs, those where he can hear him loud and clear adding what he did. Man, miss him the most of all of the fallen musicians in my lifetime. There is an old saying, "there really is nothing quite like a Dead concert", and I agree. Until Duane starts playing.
Exactly, slide playing should be just quiet and smooth, for example derek trucks is a monster with the slide but i think he is missing those quiet simple things
Duane was once quoted as saying "There are two kinds of people in this World, Cool people and Assholes"... Unfortunately there is not an "Asshole Filter" to keep them from disliking great Art...So be it...Glad for all of the others that enjoy it! Blessings & Sunshine!
Oh my word, what does it mean? Is it love or is it me That makes me change so suddenly? Looking out, feeling free. Sit here lying in my bed, Wondering what it was I'd said That made me think I'd lost my head, When I knew I lost my heart instead. Won't you please read my signs, be a gypsy. Tell me what I hope to find deep within me. Because you can find my mind, please be with me. Of all the better things I've heard, Loving you has made the words And all the rest seem so absurd, Cause in the end it all comes out, I'm sure. Won't you please read my signs, be a gypsy. Tell me what I hope to find deep within me. Because you can find my mind, please be with me. ♥
Chad, go back and get your hands on everything the ABB, and Cowboys ever did.. get over to vince Gil, Zac brown, and Greg Allman on midnight rider, 2014, to see what music was like in early 70's Georgia..
I lived in Macon during seventies and eighties. Used to listen to Cowboy play this at a venue that used to be called the Varsity but was renamed later. I love the music that was birthed in Macon, going back to Otis and Little Richard.
This is such a beatiful song, it caught me first in Eric Clapton's version which is great, but this even greater with Scott and Duane blending wonderfully. Thanks for this!
To some of you saying you like this "version" or maybe don't like this version. This is a Scott Boyer (Cowboy) song that Duane played on and that Eric Clapton later covered.
To me this sounds like the greatest dobro playing ever recorded. It is so full of feeling and so articulate -and I have not heard anyone else play this way. Duane was the man, for sure.
Isn't that the truth! If anyone could articulate an emotion thru an instrument it was Duane. I am so sad I never got to see him live, but then again his music is so inspirational and uplifting that I feel his spirit soaring thru his music he left behind. Sorry, I didn't mean to be maudlin. He just had so much depth. You're right, Duane was the man.
The lyrics in this song, man. How does someone even think of such utterly breathtaking poetry, like, where does it come from? So beautiful, I can't stop crying.
@craigtrexler8156 I listened to this whole album by cowboy, this was the only song I found myself truly enjoying on the album for whatever reason, that being said, it's one of my favorite songs
❤️REMEMBER DUANE ALLMAN❤️ OCT 29, 2020 RIP BROTHER! 49 years ago, the world lost a legend, a Brother, a son, a father, a friend, and IMO, THE GREATEST GUITARIST THAT EVER LIVED. The world is a better place because of you, Duane. Thank you for leaving such a legacy for us to enjoy. I started playing guitar this year solely because of you, Brother. 🙏❤️🎸😥
Having grown up in the late 60s & early 70s i personally have not heard any better version than this, Though I cant fault anyone for doing it as it's one fine song to play, or just kick back & listen to . Duane's ending slide lick just cements it.. Absolutely gorgeous .
I have not heard this in a very long time. I simply cried. Duane on dobro just does that to me. Vocals and instruments simply stellar. I saw ABB shortly before this recording. The coming loss was stunning and hard to understand. Death is too difficult and permanent to conceive for one so young and about one so young. It was never the same. It’s still hard. RIP Duane and Berry
Skydog was the greatest guitarist I ever saw ( I was lucky enough to see Duane live 3 times) and this includes everyone you might think of as great.. Was lucky to see the greats, Hendrix, Page, Richrds/Jones, Beck, Clapton, Vaughn, etc. They all had something, but they just couldn't compare to the soul of Duane.
He did indeed have something different and special he would probably be in my top 5 fave guitarists. I too was born a bit too late to have been able to see him as well as some of the other greats that are gone. I have seen the ones who are still here on your list. Buddy Guy is amazing and has soul as does Warren Haynes. The There are younger guys out there too like Gary Clark Jr, John Mayer and Derek Trucks.
Ken Davis..... You sure have seen all the greats.... those are all my favorite players and I've never seen any of them. Except I did meet Jimi Hendrix's family in Washington and spent some personal time with them. Pure happenstance.
I also saw SkyDog - twice - and he was clearly the best. I saw all the greats but there’s just something so emotional about his playing. Robert Fripp and Steve Howe were standouts, as well as Zappa. I wish I’d seen Prince because his playing was super emotional too, like he was bleeding and pouring out love. But Duane will always be my number one. RIP. Glad you and Gregg are finally reunited. 🌟🌟
I'm 66 years young and also fell in love with this song, and my boyfriend , when he was 17 and played it for me.... always takes me back to a beautiful place where I found love.... Always beautiful, endless music. I'll always be listening....🐦🌷
Nakul Bhargava Just keep it alive, my friend. I tell everyone I know about Duane and ask them to just listen to his music. "Skydog" on my license plate, his picture on my phone, his picture on my wall. Pass it on the younger folks.
some of the finest dobro playing on a truly beautiful early 1970s song. great band, great track - to think what Duanne could've done had he not died so early!
Just a great dang song!! Never heard this version before and I always thought it was a Clapton original!! Great slide work by the master and wonderful Harmony vocals!!! Makes my day better hearing it!!!🎸🎸🎸
A year later I'm writing this. Just turned 65. These guys' music was the food our souls growing up in Georgia in the early 70's. What a time to be coming of age.. weened on, arguably, the best music ever produced...
Saw a lot of great players as way back as the late sixties. Probably until the day I die, Duane will ALWAYS be my favorite. His chops, feel and intensity to this day are unmatched. Hearing this always brings a tear to my eye, knowing he was gone way too soon. Can't give enough thanks for today's media being able to keep him alive, in some small way. The legend of Skydog will live forever!!!
Mitchell Schwartz OMG, I miss this man! Tears flowing now...and always when I hear his sweet, sweet heavenly playing. I was incredibly blessed to hear him in Piedmont Park from the very beginning. He was and is and will be to the day I day my favorite guitarist. Cary Schwartz
This song means so much to me. It was the Eric Clapton version, but this is beautiful too. It was my song for my 1st wife who I lost. I love you forever, Suzanne...I miss you everyday of my life.
Very purdy song and makes me remember a Blonde Girl and Me goin slow down a country road on a beautiful evenin in the Northern California iddy biddy town of Grizzly Flats.Beautiful memory's indelible, etched inside my soul.Thanks Boys for the song and now I am pickin with my own guitar.Pickin since 1966 and never put er down.
+Colleen Wares I love your name. This may be the best comment on the internet today. You wear your name well, my purdy Irish lass. Sending you beaucoup de kisses for 14/2/2016 From outside NYC straight to the innards of your big beautiful heart. #PleaseBeSingleAndHot #AwwwThanksSweetheart
@Akny86 I love the clapton version and it brought me here! No need to compare they are both great renditions and you can't help but be moved bytes wonderful lyric.
What a great song! Never heard Duane's interpretation of it, but played the grooves out of Clapton's. Clapton was awed by Duane more than any player he ever knew, and for good reason. What a nice tribute to Duane that Clapton recorded this song almost note by note. With all due respect to Eric, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Richie Blackmore and David Gilmour, and all the greats, my favorite guitarists are Jimi, Duane and Johnny Winter.
@@craigtrexler8156 Scott Boyer said in an interview (somewhere here on TH-cam!) that he wrote this song on night and didn't really like it, but Duane talked him into recording it. Lucky for us, I say!
the only problem with this song is it makes me think of a boy I once knew, who also plays the guitar like an angel from heaven, when I shouldn't be thinking at all...
It's a beauty! So is Clapton's cover. So we're spoiled. Love the additional guitar work on this original version. Beautiful vocals as well. Duane has the better pipes for sure. Clapton's cover is very similar & Yvonne Elliman makes it special. Thanks for the upload. ♥
Nobody has ever played with that kind of soul. Rest in peace Brother Duane, you have always been my all time favorite guitar player. Wish you were still with us.
when this song was played back after Recording ,someone said there was too much resonating from his dobro.But, it was Decided,that's the way Duane Liked it, and it Stays.
This was recorded in the studio sometime after the recording for Anthology that has the dobro issue. This was recorded after the dobro was repaired. You know it's the Cowboy version by the dialogue at the beginning.
I am 48 and have listened to this song since I was 17 (really 13-14) and it still takes me back to the best place! A time when life was…simpler. May it never leave me. Be well Never forgotten Uncle Michael you played this tune so well…please take care of Dad. I love you & miss you both very much.
I did get to see the Greg Allman Tour with special guest Cowboy at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic NJ Dec. 1974. I was 15 at the time, one of my favorite shows. Wish I could go back in time.
Just the other day someone on F..ibook asked everyone to name a song that touched their heart and made them think about better days. I was lost until today when I remembered this song
I miss him every day. But I'm reminded of him every day because I share middle names with him. My daddy gave me his middle name, Duane, to pay homage to his favorite band and favorite guitarist of all time. I couldn't be prouder to be named after the great Skydog ❤️❤️❤️ Duane is also the sole reason I started learning to play guitar. So every time I play, I think about him. He's had such a huge impact on my life. And I was born almost 10 yrs after he passed away, Sept '81. 9 years and 11 months later, actually. Now that I've grown up and had my own child, I see just how short 10 years really is. My daughter was born 8 years ago. So Duane had barely been gone when I was born. Just 10 years prior. Really puts things into perspective. It's now been almost 50 yrs since he passed away. And his legacy is now deeply cemented in Rock & Roll history. Especially Southern Rock, a genre in which the Allman Brothers had a huge hand in creating. Today, ABB had firmly established their place in history and I know Duane was watching them, proud as ever of his vision and what he created...one of the best bands to ever grace a stage and likely THE BEST live band to ever play. 😎❤️👍
Damn i miss playing the blues, i could always make myself cry playing certain licks. Id love to jam to this, just have to solder the input jack and hopefully just a set of tubes for the DSL100 (Im old school if you couldnt tell) ✊️
I was using metronomes on TH-cam, nothing but a blue screen and different BPM and some visitors gave those a 'thumbs down'. I'm not sure exactly why you would rate a metronome one way or another anyway. 'Please Be With Me' is a gorgeous song for sure!
I'm not sure what you mean. This was the first version of this tune. Eric Clapton covered it later, after Duane's death. If there was an EARLIER version , I've never heard it, or heard OF it. but I agree this is a BEAUTIFUL version of how good both Cowboy AND Duane were.
Funny that you say that because I had never heard this song until I was listening to Ocean Blvd. a couple of days ago. I knew it was a cover and thought it might have been a Pure Prairie League song. I started Googling and found this. God, I miss Duane.
I am 64 and have listened to this song since I was 17 and it still takes me back to the best place! May it never leave me.
I agree!
64 here, too. Sweet, high school summer memories that will never fade.🥰
66 here ... still, so soothing ......
73 here and strutting across the room listening to what rode the medicine horse with me selling hips and knees. Just plain cocky and smooth song.
I am 48 and have listened to this song since I was 17 (really 13-14) and it still takes me back to the best place! Up on that mountain, us “kids” running around those woods, the adults talking & laughing around the fire, passing to the left, to the right, good people. A time when life was…simpler. I will never let go of those days…it’s all I have now. Those folks sitting around the fire are all gone now, and so its the memories that I still have. May they never leave me. Different generations yet always still a bridge remains.
Be well Susan Denton…Ian Rhein
Never forgotten “Uncle Michael” you played this tune so well…please take care of Dad. I love you & miss you both very much. A son and nephew still waiting to see you both.
I picked up the guitar after hearing Duane! Still playing 50 yrs later. There will never be another Duane Allman!
I picked up the guitar after hearing Duane, and the guitar yelled, 'put me down and don't ever touch me again you don't have a clue'!! And the music world dodged a big bullet that day.
Wanna jam?
This is so hauntingly beautiful. I saw Duane twice, he was possessed when he played. Channeled the universe through the fretboard
For songs like this, there needs to be a special "I really really REALLY like this" button!
❤️
There's a line in the movie Tombstone, when Wyatt and his posse split up. In saying goodbye, one says to Wyatt "I aint got the words." Seems to apply for a lot of really, really REALLY good songs, like this one!
Absolutely. It’s 8 years later but I hope you are doing ok
One of Duane's final recordings, gentle, tender and makes you smile.
Is there any style of music he could not play? Jazz, rock and roll, the Founder of Southern Rock, and now country, cowboy. Man this guy sounds great on everything! It was a sad day for music when we lost Duane.
As a teen I grew up in Jax watching All these guys from the beginning and their music has been a tremendous influence on my life. Later in life this is the song I sang to both my kids as their lullaby, every night to put them to sleep. Today I sing it to my grandson and he nods out peacefully responding the same way my kids did! It's a beautiful song and an intricate part of our lives!
Love ❤️ this song 🎼Cowboy was a great band they have about four albums out that are fantastic and beautiful From the early 70s incorporating Duane into this song
I have done and do the same thing. Duane would like that I think.
You lucky dawg. 😁
Last song he ever recorded. We love you, Brother Duane. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
#REMEMBERDUANEALLMAN
This song still squeezes my heart and takes me back to a simpler and gentler life, that seems both eons ago and just yesterday.
This is a sweet song, but 1971 was not a simpler or gentler time: nostalgia just makes it seem so Remember Viet Nam? Nixon? Segregation? Love this song, but be careful.
You hit the nail on the head, Peace be with you!!!🌌
@@jdcrtchfld segregation was the 50s
It’s just beautiful
Caleb Heney segregation was ended officially in 1964 with the Civil Rights Act. Then the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the Fair Housing Act in 1967 etc. Although school segregation was outlawed by the Warren Court In 1954 in the Case Brown vs. Board of Education, although it still exists in some areas.
We weren’t worthy... Rest In Peace Duane, you were a beautiful soul. We love you SkyDog.
Duane left us with so much love and beautiful music. Every note he played was special and poignant. There will never be another slide player like him he had the special touch: great intonation with the right overtones. He really never left us because we have his music and the music is imperishable :)
Thank you!
You ever heard the story of how he started playing slide,?
@@randysmith7652 yes it was Gregg who went out brought Duane his meds in a glass coriciden bottle. Duane dumped out the meds and put the bottle on his left ring finger and played along with "Statesboro Blues" He called Gregg a short time later on and told Gregg to get over here I gotta show you this!. Gregg walks in, Duane is playing slide and Gregg realized how natural he was picking it up as quick as he did. Duane had a great ear for music, he got right on that tune which became their signature tune. Nobody played Statesboro blues wit such power and grace as the ABB
Duane had just left rehab with plans to add a Tower of Power horn section. He wanted to record a tribute album to Coltrane and Miles. Duane was still getting better. He was starting to write songs and he had a voice as good as his brother. He would have gone on to cement his ownership of GOAT and the most important session guitarist in any style.
I see why Galadrielle Allman chose this as the title for her book. Just finished it, still sad, thought I'd come over to hear Duane play. Miss you forever, Skydog.
My exact sentiments... The best, maybe most forgotten slide player to ever walk this earth, some of us fortunate one's will never forget the feeling and soul you played with. yes Miss you forever Skydog
Not forgotten!
never
Beautiful
have you read Gregg's autobiography? He says he knows Duane heard him when he was doing certain songs, those where he can hear him loud and clear adding what he did. Man, miss him the most of all of the fallen musicians in my lifetime. There is an old saying, "there really is nothing quite like a Dead concert", and I agree. Until Duane starts playing.
The best slide player of all time RIP skydog...
IMO, the best guitar player that ever lived.
How about Johnny Winter ?
Yess In deed Sky Dog..✌
Exactly, slide playing should be just quiet and smooth, for example derek trucks is a monster with the slide but i think he is missing those quiet simple things
Yes I agree omar for sure
Duane was once quoted as saying "There are two kinds of people in this World, Cool people and Assholes"...
Unfortunately there is not an "Asshole Filter" to keep them from disliking great Art...So be it...Glad for all of the others that enjoy it!
Blessings & Sunshine!
One of the best songs ever done this song. It's solid gold subpop. A true treasure for the few.
Duane's spirit and soul resonates in this slide dobro. I can be felt.
Put me in the enjoy column.
Oh my word, what does it mean?
Is it love or is it me
That makes me change so suddenly?
Looking out, feeling free.
Sit here lying in my bed,
Wondering what it was I'd said
That made me think I'd lost my head,
When I knew I lost my heart instead.
Won't you please read my signs, be a gypsy.
Tell me what I hope to find deep within me.
Because you can find my mind, please be with me.
Of all the better things I've heard,
Loving you has made the words
And all the rest seem so absurd,
Cause in the end it all comes out, I'm sure.
Won't you please read my signs, be a gypsy.
Tell me what I hope to find deep within me.
Because you can find my mind, please be with me. ♥
I just heard this for the FIRST time today and I was born in 74 😂. Wow. What have I been missing? Love it!
Chad, go back and get your hands on everything the ABB, and Cowboys ever did.. get over to vince Gil, Zac brown, and Greg Allman on midnight rider, 2014, to see what music was like in early 70's Georgia..
@@stephenedwards5038 thanks brother!
My favorite guitarist EVER
Remember Duane Allman.
+John Henderson Always! forever and ever.
Always. He was the best white blues guitar player ever.
Andy McWilliams ...nah.
Mr. Mojo Risin how could we forget
@@catdaddy3302 The best guitar player - PERIOD.
Duane can never be forgotten
Scott Boyer, Tommy Talton and the great Duane Allman. Man, Macon rocked in those days.
I lived in Macon during seventies and eighties. Used to listen to Cowboy play this at a venue that used to be called the Varsity but was renamed later. I love the music that was birthed in Macon, going back to Otis and Little Richard.
Thank you for this beautiful song that you've left us, Cowboy, Duane, and the rest. Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
In this song Duane plays with the Cowboys it is fair to remember that this song was composed by the great Charles Scott Boyer.
This is such a beatiful song, it caught me first in Eric Clapton's version which is great, but this even greater with Scott and Duane blending wonderfully. Thanks for this!
To some of you saying you like this "version" or maybe don't like this version. This is a Scott Boyer (Cowboy) song that Duane played on and that Eric Clapton later covered.
Jim Dorman ... Correct.. Randy Meisner also did a tasty version
It blows my mind each time.
To me this sounds like the greatest dobro playing ever recorded. It is so full of feeling and so articulate -and I have not heard anyone else play this way. Duane was the man, for sure.
Isn't that the truth! If anyone could articulate an emotion thru an instrument it was Duane. I am so sad I never got to see him live, but then again his music is so inspirational and uplifting that I feel his spirit soaring thru his music he left behind. Sorry, I didn't mean to be maudlin. He just had so much depth. You're right, Duane was the man.
Yes Duane's the best, my favorite guitar player ever!
Truth🍑❤
Did Duane play that dobro?
@@randysmith7652
He sure did! Check the credits at the end.
The lyrics in this song, man. How does someone even think of such utterly breathtaking poetry, like, where does it come from? So beautiful, I can't stop crying.
The Band, Cowboy!
Met Scot Boyer is a Fort Walton Beach bar in 85. Hear him play his song.
Scott Boyer ll
@craigtrexler8156 I listened to this whole album by cowboy, this was the only song I found myself truly enjoying on the album for whatever reason, that being said, it's one of my favorite songs
Ugh this one rips at the heart strings. I'd be damned if it weren't an homage to Duane himself from friends and family (and fans).
I get cold chills every time I listen to this song.
❤️REMEMBER DUANE ALLMAN❤️
OCT 29, 2020 RIP BROTHER!
49 years ago, the world lost a legend, a Brother, a son, a father, a friend, and IMO, THE GREATEST GUITARIST THAT EVER LIVED. The world is a better place because of you, Duane. Thank you for leaving such a legacy for us to enjoy. I started playing guitar this year solely because of you, Brother. 🙏❤️🎸😥
This song now comes to us from Heaven as Tommy has now joined Scott and Duane. RIP between sets guys.
Having grown up in the late 60s & early 70s i personally have not heard any better version than this, Though I cant fault anyone for doing it as it's one fine song to play, or just kick back & listen to . Duane's ending slide lick just cements it.. Absolutely gorgeous .
Still perfectly, beautifully listenable in 2019 😑✌️
I have not heard this in a very long time. I simply cried. Duane on dobro just does that to me. Vocals and instruments simply stellar. I saw ABB shortly before this recording. The coming loss was stunning and hard to understand. Death is too difficult and permanent to conceive for one so young and about one so young. It was never the same. It’s still hard. RIP Duane and Berry
Me too
Skydog was the greatest guitarist I ever saw ( I was lucky enough to see Duane live 3 times) and this includes everyone you might think of as great.. Was lucky to see the greats, Hendrix, Page, Richrds/Jones, Beck, Clapton, Vaughn, etc. They all had something, but they just couldn't compare to the soul of Duane.
ugh where did you see Duane?!?!?!! I am too young by about 25 years to ever have seen him live..
I envy you, sir. I was born 10 years after his death so I had no opportunity to. Only the videos left of him.
He did indeed have something different and special he would probably be in my top 5 fave guitarists. I too was born a bit too late to have been able to see him as well as some of the other greats that are gone. I have seen the ones who are still here on your list. Buddy Guy is amazing and has soul as does Warren Haynes. The There are younger guys out there too like Gary Clark Jr, John Mayer and Derek Trucks.
Ken Davis..... You sure have seen all the greats.... those are all my favorite players and I've never seen any of them. Except I did meet Jimi Hendrix's family in Washington and spent some personal time with them. Pure happenstance.
I also saw SkyDog - twice - and he was clearly the best. I saw all the greats but there’s just something so emotional about his playing. Robert Fripp and Steve Howe were standouts, as well as Zappa. I wish I’d seen Prince because his playing was super emotional too, like he was bleeding and pouring out love. But Duane will always be my number one. RIP. Glad you and Gregg are finally reunited. 🌟🌟
Skydog put so much Heart & Soul into this performance. I think he ALWAYS gave his all, he was just getting better at it at the End...
God, I love this song. i had not heard Duane's version. Wow.
Brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. ❤️🎸✌️
this song is awesome! Duane's solo is soooo soulful and just right. badass!
I'm 66 years young and also fell in love with this song, and my boyfriend , when he was 17 and played it for me.... always takes me back to a beautiful place where I found love.... Always beautiful, endless music. I'll always be listening....🐦🌷
Such a wonderful tune Scott wrote and sung (w/Tommy). Duane's playing is sublime. Just gorgeous and tasteful and restrained. Fantastic.
only 28k views for this genius piece of work! Man i pity this generation where talentless people are shining and beauty like these are fading!
there are another 60k views for the album "5 'll get you ten" but still a meagre number for this beautiful piece of art
You got that right.
Rock, and roll is dying. Along with America.
Nakul Bhargava Just keep it alive, my friend. I tell everyone I know about Duane and ask them to just listen to his music. "Skydog" on my license plate, his picture on my phone, his picture on my wall. Pass it on the younger folks.
Right on... bullshit abounds these days... mine included. Wish I could go back and start over.
some of the finest dobro playing on a truly beautiful early 1970s song. great band, great track - to think what Duanne could've done had he not died so early!
Discovered this song well over 30 years ago and sounds wonderful every time ! Duane Allman -there was no better at what he did. Remember Sky Dog !
R.I.P. TO ALL, I CAN LISTEN TO THIS SONG 1000 TIMES IN A ROW, ALL DAY LONG, COUSIN FIGEL
can't even put into words the feelings...
44 years ago today...rest in peace Skydog
So beautiful, I wish there was more stuff like that nowadays.
Just a great dang song!! Never heard this version before and I always thought it was a Clapton original!! Great slide work by the master and wonderful
Harmony vocals!!! Makes my day better hearing it!!!🎸🎸🎸
The absolute beauty of this defies description
Listening to Boyer and Talton on what would have been my cousin Scot Boyer's 73rd birthday...
A year later I'm writing this. Just turned 65. These guys' music was the food our souls growing up in Georgia in the early 70's.
What a time to be coming of age.. weened on, arguably, the best music ever produced...
God bless! Lori!
Of all the different versions I've heard this is my favorite. So beautiful with Duane on the Dobro.
Saw a lot of great players as way back as the late sixties. Probably until the day I die, Duane will ALWAYS be my favorite. His chops, feel and intensity to this day are unmatched.
Hearing this always brings a tear to my eye, knowing he was gone way too soon. Can't give enough thanks for today's media being able to keep him alive, in some small way.
The legend of Skydog will live forever!!!
Mitchell Schwartz OMG, I miss this man! Tears flowing now...and always when I hear his sweet, sweet heavenly playing. I was incredibly blessed to hear him in Piedmont Park from the very beginning. He was and is and will be to the day I day my favorite guitarist. Cary Schwartz
Cary Miller He's in Heaven. He's not dead.
Me too, Skydog will always be my favorite guitar player. His playing is just not like anyone else's I've ever heard.
Agreed, Heard him and ABB at WINTERS END FESTIVAL in Florida in March 197O. Best i've ever heard, before or since.
amen, nothing to add, you said it all.
This song means so much to me. It was the Eric Clapton version, but this is beautiful too. It was my song for my 1st wife who I lost. I love you forever, Suzanne...I miss you everyday of my life.
SO PEACE FULL AND GREAT SLIDE WORK BY DUANE BEFORE HIS DEATH .R.I.P. DUANE !
Wow. I’ll listen to this every day. Duane’s sweet playing.
A ton can be said for Scott and Tommy. Great 1970's talent and honestly good guys.
my favorite song ever. beautiful slide playing.
mine too since 1971.never replaced
Maggie Bridgewater I agree. You have great taste in music and slide playing
Maggie Bridgewater soooo sweet
Tommy Talton is also a slide legend!!
dobro
this has always been one of, if not THE, favorite song that Duane played on.
so i will watch it 28 k more times, memories of front porch summers in Atlanta, thanks alan, always, for great inspiration from great tunes.
It doesn't matte who sings this song, the words speak for themselves!
Very purdy song and makes me remember a Blonde Girl and Me goin slow down a country road on a beautiful evenin in the Northern California iddy biddy town of Grizzly Flats.Beautiful memory's indelible, etched inside my soul.Thanks Boys for the song and now I am pickin with my own guitar.Pickin since 1966 and never put er down.
This may be the best comment on the internet today ^. Here's to the etches in the soul.
Colleen Wares Here is to the Etches, they are the lines we follow back home someday.
Here's to them. It's all those etches..indelible..that run parallel, and intersect, and overlap that make a rich life.
+Colleen Wares I love your name. This may be the best comment on the internet today.
You wear your name well, my purdy Irish lass.
Sending you beaucoup de kisses for 14/2/2016
From outside NYC straight to the innards of your big beautiful heart.
#PleaseBeSingleAndHot
#AwwwThanksSweetheart
Awww thanks sweetheart. (and I'm afraid my real last name is legally no longer Wares...it is more Irish than that. McClelland)
The soothing voice of Duane of love that has gone by
Such absolute beauty and mastery in the playing of this 24 yr old man. Words cannot fully express the admiration and respect for Duane...
duanes solo has rung in my head everyday for 50 years, most beautiful thing i ever heard
I just adore this song, its just so beautiful & perfect for every mood
Absolutely beautiful!
One of my favorites,such a special song ...
I was 13 and. had the opportunity to see this genius in concert. long long time ago. beautiful song
Who the hell gives this a thumbs down? SERIOUSLY?
@Akny86 I love the clapton version and it brought me here! No need to compare they are both great renditions and you can't help but be moved bytes wonderful lyric.
Al Bowman,they are idiots.
What a great song! Never heard Duane's interpretation of it, but played the grooves out of Clapton's. Clapton was awed by Duane more than any player he ever knew, and for good reason. What a nice tribute to Duane that Clapton recorded this song almost note by note. With all due respect to Eric, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Richie Blackmore and David Gilmour, and all the greats, my favorite guitarists are Jimi, Duane and Johnny Winter.
It's not Duane's song he just plays slide dobro on the original version, by the band, "Cowboy"
@@craigtrexler8156 Scott Boyer said in an interview (somewhere here on TH-cam!) that he wrote this song on night and didn't really like it, but Duane talked him into recording it. Lucky for us, I say!
You forgot RORY GALLAGHER
It will never get better. RIP brother, it all changed when you left.
the only problem with this song is it makes me think of a boy I once knew, who also plays the guitar like an angel from heaven, when I shouldn't be thinking at all...
Such a killer tune never forget brother duane
both great - Eric Clapton and Duane Allman
I love Eric's version as?well
It's a beauty! So is Clapton's cover. So we're spoiled. Love the additional guitar work on this original version. Beautiful vocals as well. Duane has the better pipes for sure. Clapton's cover is very similar & Yvonne Elliman makes it special. Thanks for the upload. ♥
Nobody has ever played with that kind of soul. Rest in peace Brother Duane, you have always been my all time favorite guitar player. Wish you were still with us.
when this song was played back after Recording ,someone said there was too much resonating from his dobro.But, it was Decided,that's the way Duane Liked it, and it Stays.
This was recorded in the studio sometime after the recording for Anthology that has the dobro issue. This was recorded after the dobro was repaired. You know it's the Cowboy version by the dialogue at the beginning.
I am 48 and have listened to this song since I was 17 (really 13-14) and it still takes me back to the best place! A time when life was…simpler. May it never leave me. Be well
Never forgotten Uncle Michael you played this tune so well…please take care of Dad. I love you & miss you both very much.
This song is so beautiful!!!! Love Duane!!!!
Like a fine wine, it just gets better with age.
I did get to see the Greg Allman Tour with special guest Cowboy at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic NJ Dec. 1974. I was 15 at the time, one of my favorite shows. Wish I could go back in time.
Eddie Ericksen
I’m an old Deadhead, this song has had a special place in my heart for many years! ☮️
Just the other day someone on F..ibook asked everyone to name a song that touched their heart and made them think about better days. I was lost until today when I remembered this song
words words words.. listen to this guitar from heaven...
RIP Duane. Oct 29, 1971
Love this song! So Clean so pure
this song is beyond amazing...are there really words to describe it???
Perfect
Beautiful, makes me miss Duane Allman all over again
I miss him every day. But I'm reminded of him every day because I share middle names with him. My daddy gave me his middle name, Duane, to pay homage to his favorite band and favorite guitarist of all time. I couldn't be prouder to be named after the great Skydog ❤️❤️❤️
Duane is also the sole reason I started learning to play guitar. So every time I play, I think about him. He's had such a huge impact on my life. And I was born almost 10 yrs after he passed away, Sept '81. 9 years and 11 months later, actually.
Now that I've grown up and had my own child, I see just how short 10 years really is. My daughter was born 8 years ago. So Duane had barely been gone when I was born. Just 10 years prior. Really puts things into perspective. It's now been almost 50 yrs since he passed away. And his legacy is now deeply cemented in Rock & Roll history. Especially Southern Rock, a genre in which the Allman Brothers had a huge hand in creating.
Today, ABB had firmly established their place in history and I know Duane was watching them, proud as ever of his vision and what he created...one of the best bands to ever grace a stage and likely THE BEST live band to ever play. 😎❤️👍
The beauty of this piece is mesmerizing. So delicate and soulful.
Sure did need this today! Reminder of easier days.
Great tune, thanks for posting!!!!!
Damn i miss playing the blues, i could always make myself cry playing certain licks.
Id love to jam to this, just have to solder the input jack and hopefully just a set of tubes for the DSL100 (Im old school if you couldnt tell)
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If I'm down I listen to this, and it lifts me up. So beautiful
Duane is one of my all time favorite guitarists,,this song brings back some good memories.
that slide resonator is so beautiful. what a great song
Never be another like Duane
I was using metronomes on TH-cam, nothing but a blue screen and different BPM and some visitors gave those a 'thumbs down'. I'm not sure exactly why you would rate a metronome one way or another anyway. 'Please Be With Me' is a gorgeous song for sure!
I never thought there could ever be a better version of this tune, - But just leave it ta' Skydog and anything's possible I guess.
I'm not sure what you mean. This was the first version of this tune. Eric Clapton covered it later, after Duane's death.
If there was an EARLIER version , I've never heard it, or heard OF it.
but I agree this is a BEAUTIFUL version of how good both Cowboy AND Duane were.
I haven't heard this in year! Tears....❤️
Absolutely bliss
The group behind Duane is Cowboy. Anyone who thinks Pure Prairie League started to popularize this sound... they listened well
Funny that you say that because I had never heard this song until I was listening to Ocean Blvd. a couple of days ago. I knew it was a cover and thought it might have been a Pure Prairie League song. I started Googling and found this. God, I miss Duane.