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Duane Betts

There is learning and there is knowing. From sit-ins, sessions, and sideman shifts, Duane Betts learned. Then, Duane Betts knew. The Los Angeles-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter knew it was time to take all that he learned and make it his own. It was time to step out from the side of the stage and move to the center. After celebrated stints with folk-rock darlings Dawes and his dad Dickey Betts’ post-Allman Brothers Band outfit, Great Southern, Duane Betts knew it was time to go solo. So, arrives his long-awaited recording debut: Sketches of American Music. With venerable guitar, timeworn vocals and enlightened, seasoned songwriting on a six-pack of instant favorites, Duane delivers five of his own freshly-drawn rock-and-roll portraits brilliantly colored in country and blues, plus a special homage to his Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame dad Dickey Betts

Sketches of American Music

By Duane Betts

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Taking Time; Downtown Runaround; When We Get Home; Think I’m Doing Well; California Blues; Ride it Out.

Duane Betts: Sketches of American Music

by Doug Collette
June 23, 2018

It's a daunting task just to follow in the footsteps of a bonafide legend of American music, in the case of Duane Betts, his father Dickey, co-founder, guitarist and major composer for the Allman Brothers Band. But the offspring is taking his sweet time enaging in follow-up on that estimable legacy of Southern rock with this ...