I checked the wiki too, because I'd thought what Jay said, too. Looks like The Allman Brothers split the difference and credited them both.
I'll tell you who did NOT write it - Marshall Sehorn, who gets credit on Elmo's version.* He was a recording engineer and record producer. It was fairly common back then for some music biz guy (usually white) to get himself listed as a co-writer on a record made by a (usually black musician) in order to get a split of royalties. A much more famous example is Chuck Berry's first hit, "Maybellene," which somehow got co-credited to Allan Freed. How the Cleveland DJ got his fingers in Chuck's pie, when it was recorded on Chicago's Chess label, is mystifying.
But these were the days of payola and ... stuff happened.
Anyway, I am much more familiar with the ABB version, a rock classic, than either of the originals. And it is substantially different musically from the originals, which are similar to each other (apart from the instrumentation). Go figure.
Personally, I'd have brought the E string in, with either 2245 A or 2243 A7. But maybe that's just me.
* That's what the single's labl says: Elmo James.
I've never seen that before, either.
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