Happy birthday Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records and one of Duane's biggest proponents, January 10, 1917⁠

"The most interesting thing for me personally is in the general scope of music. I think there's a definite trend back toward what I call ‘Swamp music.’ I feel that there's the emergence of what you might call American roots music.⁠ It's country-funk, white rhythm & blues. There's a lotta ways to describe it. But I can illustrate it by the emergence of people like Creedence Clearwater, Delaney and Bonnie, Tony Joe White, Dr. John. ⁠

You know, it's a very specialized kind of music. It doesn't depend, for example, upon a lot of hi-powered, souped-up electronic work. It doesn't depend upon extreme equalization, echo, feedback, but rather it's basically southern R&B Music with a country aspect to it.⁠⁠

I think it's an emergent trend that's right in front of us. This all has to do with the Memphis/Muscle Shoals ambience. This is an interlocking network of southern musicians –they all know each other some of them are studio men; some are group men take Duane Allman for example, who comes from Central Florida originally. He's very much into this thing. It's Southern, country-born musicians who've gone for the blues."