Duane Allman flipped out the first time he heard Jimmy Reed. Jim Shepley was there. Gregg "Jim Shepley was a couple of years older. He turned us onto Jimmy Reed records. He had a bunch of those hot licks down, and I thought, 'Man, this guy is something else!' And so he sat with Duane all the time."⁠⁠

⁠Shepley "Duane flipped out and immediately wanted me to show him all that stuff. From the first day I showed him Jimmy Reed, Duane knew that he only wanted to be one thing: a rock & roll star." ⁠