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Cream- Wheels of Fire @55- Eric Clapton, the late Jack Bruce

Cream's breakthrough album "Disraeli Gears" only nine months earlier tee'd up the English/Scottish trio's June 1968 third release, "Wheels of Fire", for some impressive numbers. It went almost immediately to #3 sales in the UK and a bonafide #1 in the US, becoming the first double album to sell over a million copies. Eric Clapton & the late Jack Bruce are my guests.

Allman Brothers Band- Idlewild South- the late Gregg Allman

...for me in Autumn 1970 with discovering the Allman Brothers Band, as it was their second album, "Idlewild South" , which was my gateway drug to a five decade musical high for what turned out to be, as legendary producer Tom Dowd put it it, "the greatest musical fusion I've ever witnessed."