It's a southern thing. You look at almost an guitar great from the south. They were all pretty much shunned for great recognition. Duane Allman was an exception simply because he couldn't be overlooked. Dickey was perhaps even more talented. The skinny has always been that he learned slide guitar OVERNIGHT on the bus on the way to a concert. I can tell you the skinny is right. I heard it from the horse's mouth. He knew nothing about slide guitar and said that was the scardest he'd ever been in his life. If you find some of their earliest videos from right after Duane's death, you can clearly tell Dickey is not completely comfortable playing slide. It's really obvious. But he was still very good even when he first started.
