Can't wait!

I hope you can form a question from what I sent you, Donnah.. if not I can clarify it.

ha! an opportunity arises and i go blank. ergo cogito doom.

Other 'more general' Q's from a nonmusically-talented fan:

1. What was their favorite regular venue/audience?
2. How did they characterize their own sound? Did they have a name for it?
3. Who had the idea to use two drummers? Was that a new thing at the time?
4. Which song or performance did DA consider to be his best (his 'masterpiece'?)
5. Who was DA's best friend?
6. Who was DA's best friend in the band?
7. The author's favorite quote or comment about DA?

Donnah:

I realize you've asked for any questions to be submitted, but what I'd like to do is just thank Randy Poe for his book about Duane Allman. I'm eager to read it.

But Poe having completed a book about Duane Allman is a wonderful and good thing. I see from the website that Barry Gibbons has written a forward (more goodness, thanks).

Duane's short life of 24 years lived leaves us all wondering what would have been had he stayed with us all a bit longer, but, it also makes what he accomplished while here on this Earth so much more valuable. I listen to him play and I really do understand that Duane was a blessed man.

for Poe, however, as author, I'd be interested in hearing him discuss how he approached this book, organized his research for it, and how long it took him to write it (as with the whole process, start to finish, how much time he devoted to it, including research leadking up to writing the book).

So much time's past since Duane Allman was alive, and there wasn't a lot of media about him and his work, nor as to the Band itself (nor in general about anything else) that was focused on music, and especially on the session work and Southern Rock (or Rock at all) at the time of Duane's adult life and work.

People today take for granted the massive amount of information that's daily available about nearly any and all in the arts, via the internet and publishing and music industry via publicity, but when Duane was accomplishing his best work (and work in total), there was little to no media paying atttention or even available (same with all musicians other than established ones at the time of Duane's work, is my point).

So, I'd enjoy hearing Poe discuss how it was he was actually able to contact with information about Duane from those times past, from our present perspectives -- was it by looking up individuals today who actually played with Duane? If so (my best guess), how did he accomplish that (as to author's process).

Ask him if he was able to use the Muscle Shoals sessions for a source being as it is close by.

The questions cason asked would be similar to anything I would have wanted to ask.

And tell him thanks

My thanks to everyone for all the questions they send in either via e-mail or left here. I've sent them off to Randy and am as anxious as y'all are to read the answers.