Texas-born guitarist/bassist/vocalist Keith Allison had a career woven into the very fabric of American rock & roll and pop/rock since the mid-'60s. Born Sydney Keith Allison and raised in San Antonio, he was already attracting notice locally in his mid-teens in high school, not only with his prowess on the guitar but also with his looks -- he was nearly a dead ringer for Paul McCartney. It was when he moved to Los Angeles in the mid-'60s that his career began to take off. He passed briefly through the line-up of the Crickets, and worked with such figures as Roy Orbison and Ra...