Sunday music

I had hoped to find a Widespread Panic version of this as a tribute to Todd Nance, but no such luck.  Here's Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit, "Compared To What," from their self-titled debut.  Hampton was sort of the center of the jam band revival of the early 90s, and the HORDE festival.  Here, you get Jimmy Herring on guitar.  Herring eventually replaced Mikey Houser on guitar in Widespread Panic after Houser died.  Herring plays with everyone, though.  Oteil Burbridge on bass.  Oteil handled bass for the latter period of the Allmans, and works a lot with Derek & Susan, who run the show now.  Point being, this band is kind of the source, and while a lot of the jam band revival was pointless noodling and excess, Hampton and those around him were much more musically sophisticated.


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