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Article: Fayetteville's Herring goes back to his roots

 
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:25 pm    Post subject: Article: Fayetteville's Herring goes back to his roots Reply with quote

http://www.fayettevillenc.com/story.php?Template=weekender&Story=7114451
Fayetteville's Herring goes back to his roots

By Stacy Peterson
Staff writer



Guitarist Jimmy Herring is perhaps our best-known native musician.

Born and raised in Fayetteville, Herring has since gone on to play with legends. He played with The Dead after the death of the late, great Jerry Garcia. He helped to replace Dickey Betts in the Allman Brothers Band. He is also a force and and inspiration to players in the fusion jazz and jam band scene.

Herring is doing something a little unusual this summer.

He has returned to touring with members of the band that got it all started in the 1990s: Col. Bruce Hampton's Aquarium Rescue Unit.

On Thursday, Aug. 11, Herring and the band The Codetalkers, which is made up of Hampton and others, will play at the Cats Cradle in Carrboro.

Herring grew up in the Tallywood neighborhood of Fayetteville, the son of Betty Herring and the late D.D. Herring, a former superior court judge.

He got his first guitar in 1972, when he was 10 years old. Herring sat in his room and learned songs by Jimi Hendrix, Aerosmith, the Beatles, and, you guessed it, the Allman Brothers Band.

Another local musician - the late Frank Hardwick - helped Herring along in the early days.

His big break came when he was playing in a band called Jazz Is Dead. Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh heard him and asked him to join his own band. By 2003, Herring had joined the reunited members of the Grateful Dead in the new version of the band, simply called The Dead.

Did you know?

# When Herring joined the Allman Brothers Band on tour, he was already in good company. It turns out that years before Herring had played with Allman's bassist Oteil Burbridge in Aquarium Rescue Unit.

# Derek Trucks, who is now a young guitar star with the Allman Brothers Band, considers Herring one of his best musician friends. In fact, Trucks first met Herring when he was just 11 years old.

Trucks, who is a guitar prodigy, was opening a concert from the Aquarium Rescue Unit at the Cats Cradle.
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