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Jimmy Herring is simply one of the best guitarists playing today. His fiery style has graced the work of ARU, Frogwings, the Allman Brothers (where he more than ably replaced Dicky Betts on tour last year) and others. Here, on his first solo outing, he surrounds himself with other top players to deliver a high energy instrumental potpourri. Although equally adept at rock and blues playing, he leans here more towards the jazzier side of rock. On the opening cut "Raging Torrent" drummer Jeff Sipe sets the tone with an uptempo beat leading to some furious soloing by Herring. One of my favorite cuts "Rainbow" also features some beautiful piano work and cool time changes. The whole CD seems to move effortlessly though various musical directions, never losing it's freshness or impact. One minor negative: I'm not sure what the point was in placing short (i.e 30 second) noisy interludes between most of the features tracks, as I found these somewhat annoying. If you could program these out, you'd be left with one of the finest instrumental recordings in recent memory. Jimmy Herring may not be a household name, but this CD is further evidence that he's one of the finest players on the scene today.

After some of the negative reviews, I was a bit sceptical. WOW what a pleasant surprise. Just when you thought you have heard it all, along comes another one. After seeing TRIBAL TEC with SCOTTY HENDERSON a couple of years back, I didn't expect anyone to improve on HENDERSON's take on ACID JAZZ. Well, HERRING does just that. If you like acid jazz with a tinge of blues and a wicked sense of humor, than this is definitely for you. HERRING is as good or better than just about anyone in the jazz genre. This is exciting musik from a band of masters and contains any number of highlights. Beautifull tone, georgous compositions, awesome variety and a palpable sense of fun and enthusiasm that is infectious.
Despite the obvious ability of all concerned it never descends into a contest. No giant ego's need massaging and these virtuosos seem to revel in each others company.
A must have in any guitarist's CD collection.

I have enjoyed listening to Jimmy Herring for over 20 years and I ADORE this CD. My personal favorites are the guitarguments with Derek Trucks and Jimmy Herring "talking/arguing" with each other. Very innovative and hilarious! Some of my others favorites include MudBug, Genetic Drift, Augusta's Ankle and Albright Special. Col. Bruce Hampton throwing in a few words of his own in Extra Cold makes listening to this CD all the more fun!
Jimmy Herring, T.Lavitz and Jeff Sipe make a great combination. A must have for any collection!

This CD is absolutely amazing. It is definately the best I have ever heard from Jimmy Herring. Not only that but Jeff Sipe (Leftover Salmon, Aquarimu Rescue Unit) is incredible in it too, as are everyone else for that matter! The song with Derek Trucks (Allman Brothers, Derek Trucks Band) has some of the best guitar I've ever heard. Do not underestimate this CD. Buy it.

This is a spirited session of instrumental jams, heavy on a R&B vibe, but also some fusion, rock, and blues thrown in for variety. The players are hot. If you've never heard of Jimmy Herring your in for a treat if you like good guitar players. Whether he shreds a distorted lead or lays down some clean picking, he does it all tastefully. The rhythm section of Ricky Keller (bass) and Jeff Sipe (drums) are intense and manic. They pound hard and heavy, and the Rev. Oliver Wells' keyboard playing is refined. There are eight weird but short interludes that irritate me (don't know why they wanted these on the disc), but that should not distract anyone who likes great instrumental music from checking this out.

This album is really incredible. Jimmy Herring is a phenom! Wish his ARU stuff was more accessible.

BUT BEWARE WHEN DOWNLOADING THE MP3 version of this album. The song Mud Bug has a miscue at the start of the song and a noticeable gap a bit after 3 minutes into the song. I had notified Amazon about this but had not heard anything back.

It's a shame because you don't expect the download to have problems, but this one is a pretty mistake when you want to just enjoy the album.

So much talent I had to listen to it three times, one for the guitar, one for the bass, and the other for the drums.........awsome