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Title: Richard Betts - Highway Call
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1974, Country Rock, Southern Rock/Country Blues, West Palm Beach, Florida / Macon, Georgia 6/26
Matrix #: CP 0123
Condition: VG+ LM | Members: Dickey B (43' - 24')
Cultural Facts:

1. Studio Lore Highway Call was Betts’ first solo album, leaning harder into country, fiddle, pedal steel, and open-road songwriting than the Allman Brothers’ heavier blues-rock side.
2. Scene Ecology The album shows how close Southern rock was to country music, with Betts turning the Allmans’ long instrumental flow into something warmer, dustier, and more rural.
3. Personal Struggle Betts made this after the deaths of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley, carrying forward the Allman Brothers spirit while the band’s classic era was still marked by real grief.

7/31/26 LM