Do yourself a favor RIGHT NOW and find a few precious moments in your busy weekend schedule to get yourself a copy of Scott Bomar's SOUTHBOUND. This man has exposed THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH AS WE KNOW IT ABOUT OUR MUSIC. His focus is upon the formative years ('65-'72) of the Allmans, Cowboy, Wet Willie, Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels, Elvin Bishop, the Outlaws, ARS, 38 Special, Skynyrd, ZZ Top and Hank Jr. Here's a sample quote from page 83: "Ricky Hirsch had a college buddy," Jack(Hall) continued, "a fraternity brother in the Jewish fraternity named Frank Friedman. Frank was the person who was responsible for us coming up from Mobile to check out the scene in Macon. He had gone over to Macon himself, to see what was going on once the Allman Brothers were just starting to get off the ground, and musicians were starting to get wind that something was happening there."

Friedman had a group known as the Willie Band, and later the Wet Willie Band, that included, at varous times,Court Pickett, Joe Rudd, Bill Stewart, Chuck Leavell, Lou Mullenx[sic] and Ronnie Brown. When the band dwindled to just Frank and Lou, he recruited Fox and arranged an audition with Capricorn's Frank Fenter.