Bobby Whitlock met Duane Allman and felt like he'd already known him his entire life. The music was why. "What he had found out through records he had listened to, studying Robert Johnson and Elmore James, all of that was pouring through him. It wasn't coming from him; it was coming through him—that pure essence. There was instant camaraderie. He was one of those people who you felt you had always known from the instant you met him." Bobby Whitlock