Jimmy Herring was born on January 22,1962 and is the lead guitarist for the band Widespread Panic.
25 Facts About Jimmy Herring
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Jimmy Herring is a founding member of Aquarium Rescue Unit and Jazz Is Dead and has played with The Allman Brothers Band, Project Z, Derek Trucks Band, Phil Lesh and Friends, and The Dead.
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Jimmy Herring had a Telecaster guitar with a Stratocaster neck, in the same style as one of his biggest influences, Steve Morse of the Dixie Dregs.
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Jimmy Herring was the lead guitarist for the jam band Col.
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In 1998 and 1999 Jimmy Herring went on tour as Jazz Is Dead with bassist Alphonso Johnson, keyboardist T Lavitz, and drummer Billy Cobham.
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Jimmy Herring appeared on the album Out of the Madness by The Derek Trucks Band.
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Jimmy Herring continued to play with the group, now renamed The Dead, in 2003 and 2004.
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In January 2005, Jimmy Herring appeared on the Jam Cruise 3 stage with several acts, including Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade.
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In 2006, Jimmy Herring officially became a member of Widespread Panic as their new lead guitar player.
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In 2008, Jimmy Herring released Lifeboat, his first official solo album, on Abstract Logix.
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The material consists primarily of instrumental jazz-rock fusion, and features a rotating lineup of long-time Jimmy Herring collaborators, including Oteil and brother Kofi Burbridge, Jeff Sipe, alto and soprano saxophonist Greg Osby, and others, including two songs featuring Derek Trucks.
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Jimmy Herring was on the cover of Guitar Player Magazine the very same year.
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Jimmy Herring toured the album extensively in the United States during the Fall of 2012 with Jeff Sipe, Neal Fountain and Matt Slocum.
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In 2017, Jimmy Herring formed The Invisible Whip with Jeff Sipe on drums, Jason Crosby on violin and Rhodes, Kevin Scott on bass, Matt Slocum on Organ.
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On May 26,2018, Jimmy Herring played guitar with The Dave Matthews Band in Atlanta, Georgia.
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In 2019, Jimmy Herring formed The 5 of 7, featuring Kevin Scott on bass, Matt Slocum on keys, Darren Stanley on drums and Rick Lollar on voice and guitar.
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One of Jimmy Herring's primary guitars is a white PRS NF3 model guitar with a maple neck, stock electronics, mint green pickguard and Dunlop 6000 frets.
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Jimmy Herring has been known to use a modified American Standard Fender Stratocaster.
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Jimmy Herring uses a 1969 Stratocaster as well as several other PRS guitars and has played a 1970 Gibson SG given as a gift from Derek Trucks.
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Jimmy Herring has expanded his effects pedals when playing Dead related music, and sported a TC Electronic M-One, and a Mutron with both The Dead and Phil Lesh and Friends.
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At the beginning of Fall 2007, Jimmy Herring began using Fuchs Overdrive Supreme amplifiers.
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Into 2009 Jimmy Herring continued to use Fuchs amps, but now used a Tripledrive Supreme 100 watt head, and occasionally an Overdrive Supreme 100 watt head.
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Jimmy Herring uses a Tone Tubby 4x12 cab and two 2x12 Hard Truckers speaker cabs with Alnico tone tubby speakers.
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Jimmy Herring uses a Fractal Audio Axe-Fx for effects, mainly reverb and delay sounds.