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Capricorn Rhythm Section
7+ albums
Southern Rock
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Ever heard of them? How about Capricorn Records? You remember, Duane Allman, Allman Brothers Band, Dickie (Richard) Betts, Marshall Tucker Band, Bonnie Bramlett, Wet Willie, Cowboy? Well, the members of the CAPRICORN RHYTHM SECTION are some of the ones responsible for producing their records, playing on them and writing songs they recorded. But the history of CRS doesn’t begin there. Years before Capricorn Records put the genre of music known as "Southern Rock" on the map in Macon, Georgia. Johnny Sandlin and Paul Hornsby had joined forces with Duane and Gregg Allman to form the Hour Glass band. Scott Boyer was playing in the 31st of February with his high school friend, Butch Trucks and Bill Stewart was making music in South Camp and Tommy Talton was on the road with We The People. Then along came Phil Walden and Capricorn Records. By that time, the Hour Glass had disbanded and Duane Allman was living in Muscle Shoals doing session work where he was discovered by Jerry Wexler. Wexler alerted Phil Walden who immediately signed Duane to his new record label. One of the earliest visions Phil Walden had for his new record company was a rhythm section in the image of those at Stax and Muscle Shoals Sound. Duane recommended his friends and former Hour Glass bandmates, Johnny Sandlin and Paul Hornsby, to put the band together while Allman, along with others in the newly formed Allman Brothers Band, became an “unofficial” member of the Rhythm Section. By 1970, Sandlin found him
