Like the tracks I posted a while back, this is from the first Boz Scaggs album, which featured on about half its tracks a Muscle Shoals session guitarist named Duane Allman. The Allman Brothers Band released their first album the same year, and did not become stars until a couple of years later. So this is still the young hungry Duane, burning to prove himself.
Which doesn't mean that he's stomping the music into submission. One of Duane's strong points was his range: he could burn but he could also float, and some of his most memorable work was also his most gentle. Here he weaves in and out of Scaggs's vocal, using the special attributes of slide guitar to craft a strong but subtle tonal flavor. The producers obviously liked his work so much that the last minute or so of the song consists of the ghostly presence of his guitar, with nearly all other instruments gone.
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