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“Jessica” is a rock instrumental written by Dickey Betts, guitarist of The Allman Brothers Band, and Les Dudek, who played with them soon after Duane Allman’s death. Jessica was first released on the band’s 1973 album Brothers and Sisters, and has subsequently been used in many musical contexts. A January 2006 Wall Street Journal article referred to the piece as “a true national heirloom.“ It is widely known as the theme to the BBC Two motoring programme Top Gear and its popular reformatted revival. The tune, along with “Ramblin’ Man”, is one of several tracks from the album which reflect a transition for the Allman Brothers foreshadowed by the stylistically similar Betts composition Blue Sky on the Band’s previous album, Eat a Peach, and accelerated with the deaths... Read on...