I spent a month in New Orleans in 1967 and noticed some ladies had more beads than others. Hmmm. 

Tommy Talton should have been a much bigger singer/guitarist/song writer. Those Cowboy albums were excellent but they didn't sell that well. Tommy was a fine slide guitar player too and it exceptional on The Gregg Allman Tour with special guest Cowboy live album which dropped in 1974. 

Those several full stops on the video above by Tommy and his band and the entire song were excellent!! 

In 1967 several of the bands I saw in the French Quarter were horn bands. Dixieland Jazz I think they called it and New Orleans was ground zero for that style. 

This is live from New Orleans in 1957

Bobby Hackett Trumpet. Jack ( Big T)Teagarden Trombone. Peanuts Haney Clarinet. Slippery Wagner Piano. Backbeat Lawson Bass. Cozy Cole Drums. 

Struttin' On Bourbon Street 

Tommy Talton with excellent slide guitar and a great song with a crazy beat. Where Can You Go? 

I think Bob Dylan once said something like, "just because something's popular don't make it good".  Talent, chops and fine guitar playing aught to be enough for anybody, right?  I was once trying to get a club owner in Birmingham to book Tommy for a show.  The owner told me, "Man, I LOVE Tommy Talton!  "But besides you and me, there ain't three people in this dive who have ever heard of him!"  That, right there told the story of Tommy, Jack Pearson, Randall Bramblett and so many others that we know and love on this site.  Maybe if there were four or five Tommys and they all did silly dances while singing, "baby-baby-baby" to a bunch of pre-pubescent school girls - maybe that would've made him famous?  It just sucks that such talented performers can go unheralded in their own lifetimes.  

But this is Fat Tuesday!  Gonna flash my "moobs" at the computer screen - hopin' somebody throws some virtual beads my way!  😉 

@rusty Les Dudek is another fine guitar player with an Allman connection who never became that famous. 

Tommy Talton on slide guitar. Jaimoe and Bill Stewart on drums. Gregg live 1974. 

Maybe deserving a thread of its own, but Tommy passed away recently. Great musician & very nice guy. My first Boyer & Talton show was 1971 with them opening for ABB. I saw them a few more times over the years as well as my first booking in concert promotion. Saw Tommy & Scott couple nights on the Gregg orchestra tour in mid '70's. Those were highlight shows.

Tommy was (is) a fine songwriter & excellent guitar player. Really like his songs & his guitar playing style. I reached out to Tommy maybe 2 years ago & we talked a lot about music & the Boyer Talton days. I told him he was one of the main guys I listened to in early '70's learning to play guitar by playing along with Cowboy - Boyer & Talton songs. I wore out many an album back in those days. I asked Tommy to play on some original songs I was recording, & he graciously agreed. He was very easy to work with...a true pro. A very kind person. His work on my songs was excellent, and I'm glad I reached out to him. His memory and his music will live with many of us. God rest his soul.

There are several videos out on youtube from his memorial service with folks like Randall Bramblett, Mike Veal, etc. Here is one.