Throwback Thursday | 2000
Jimmy Herring Brings the Heat with the Allman Brothers
By Tripp Demoss
It’s the best of all possible worlds. Something that Leibniz said? No- Jimmy Herring and Derek Trucks doing the Allman Brothers Band thing. The year was 2000, Dickey Betts was, for better or worse, on his way out. In comes one of the world’s greatest Jimmy Herring. He’s played Aquarium Rescue Unit, the Dead, Jazz is Dead, and of course now Widespread Panic- but is he, perhaps, really at home channeling Dickey Betts, while Derek moves in and out of the muse of Duane? Listen to the “Don’t Keep Me Wonderin” show opener, and tell me that’s not the case.
I’ve always loved “Stand Back,” a really cheeky tune that Dickey always performed with aplomb- but man, can Jimmy shred it too! I love the “Franklin’s Tower” here- we’re all used to Warren Haynes tearing this one apart- but when you listen to Jimmy do it, it’s kinda like Allen Collins or Gary Rossington jumped on stage with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s.
In the end, we will all sorely miss the Allman Brothers Band line-up with Derek & Warren… they do everything we love about music, including an occassional Dead cover, and inviting Jimmy Herring along for a song or two is what keeps yearning for the next show.