Dickey Betts learned to float a melody from Brahms. The violin showed him what the guitar could do within the Allman Brothers Band.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ “I listened to Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders and all those people but I think what you're talking about, the lyricism... I like Brahms. You know the things he wrote for violin? The violin can really float a melody, and I try to do that with the guitar. Believe it or not, Brahms even does a lot of the climb-ups, like in 'Blind Love' on the new album, where the two guitars have the melody and it climbs right up—it's almost a signature of the Allman Brothers Band. Well, Brahms does that same thing in a lot of his pieces, in a more sophisticated way, of course." Dickey Betts