God, does this sizzling Southern symphony bring back such cherished memories!!!! How truly blessed we baby boomers were to have come of age with bands like this!!! RIP DUANE and GREGG
It just being's tears 2 my eye's also,,,I could not ever write down how many band,s solo artists , iv seen in last 50+ yr,s & 2 the one,s that's passed Rest in Peace my Hero,s Rest in Peace❤ bye- bye from Kent Oh,,,,
David Compton : nah; opinions, I prefer Warren’s style on the strings, which is way more classic Allman Bros. From a 40 yr. guitarists point of reference to the loose non precise flying improvised style of Derek that is more that of a slide guitar master... they both are very different, but get the sound out there in their own ways, and we , I guess, are entitled to our opinions, I’ve seen Warren play Pink Floyd better than Gilmore... he can play anything, consumate master... Duane is the best Slide player alive, but not the best at all the other variations of guitar, he’ll be the first to tell you !
Tonight, tears of fear, potential loss and yes joy roll down my face as i watch & listen to this. My uncle, is in the ICU in critical codition from Covid19. He is my beloved friend, music mentor and family. Growing up i airways what to him about music. When i'd brag that i'd seen the ABB he would remind me he saw them 5 times w Duane. Two of the three times ive had heart surgery in Seattle id play this song going into surgery. While i know he cant hear this right now I'm playing this as loud as i can in defiance, in sadness, in anger, most mostly in love. I love you dearly, Neal.
I'm so spoiled - I have seen them 9x or 10x times, and with BB King and Buddy Guy, Susan T several times, Greg Allman - I'm with this highly fortunate crossover gerneration - I hear these drum lines and slide riffs in my sleep every night - Derek, Warren, and all the 'conversational' back and forth with these gentlemen non-stop. Lucky, lucky, me.
I named my daughter Jessica after this song. I played this and James Taylor while feeding and playing with her, She is now 29 and gave me 3 beautiful grandbabies. Thank you Jessica
Oh that's cool. And I just meant I played the song Jessica and also James Taylor album while feeding her and rocking her to sleep. And your son married a Melissa. Awesome
Derek Trucks is in absolute control of that guitar with NO PICK!...and when I've seen him use the bottleneck slide on other songs it is just magic! Raised by the Allman Bros and taught by Dicky Betts...excellent!!! Duane is a Legend and Derek is a Legend to be...
Unbelievable version, to capture the original theme while reinventing the whole damn contra leads blows my 60 year old mind!!!! These cats are true masters !
There is a good reason I keep seeing the 2 guitar players, Trucks and Haynes, on Eric Clapton's Crossroads Festival. They are awesome on their own merits and the fact that they came together to help the Allman Brothers continue sharing the music is a blessing to us all.
Amazing. 13 minutes of brilliant instrumental music at its very best. I'd forgotten how good music of this genre could be. Dagnabit! Where's a bottle of Southern Comfort when you need it most. Thanks for posting this band's music. It's truly magical and they made it look so easy.
All things change, I remember Dicky Betts AND Duane, nothing is as good as the original but, this iteration is as good as any other. The fact they're keeping alive a style of music, the open jam ala Grateful Dead, is a testament to the free flowing life we all enjoyed then. You want to hate on something, hate on the prepackaged, processed and sampled crap that's passing for music today. It takes little to no real talent to steal riffs, toss them together and call it music. Just one old man's opinion.
from a woman named after the song by the love of a great father (who did love Dickie Betts) , but will always love the Allman Brother's! one of the great things hes passed on to his daughter, marty whitton
The beauty of Warren Haynes is that he is faithful to the original solo but still manages to insert himself into it. It shows respect. I admire that. A truly worthy •Allmann Brother•
Agreed , where Derek sounds like himself, not Allman Bros. With his slide fingerpick style, not that I don’t like him but it’s different. Warren is clearly the leader calling the breaks and modulations
RIP Greg. My dad named me Jessica long before I was born he loved this song so much. I loved growing up listening to this band thanks for the memories!!!
Been a fan of them since my late teens. Saw Derek Trucks when he was about 12 or 14 @ Under the Street in Durham NC when it was still open in approx 1991. Got his pick and told him I’d join him of stage someday...because he was already that frigging good and I foresaw myself playing blues rock on large stages someday. My musical goals have changed over the years, but I’m grateful that I’ve be privy to watching the ABB’s legacy grow and expand. These guys are a treasure.
Dicky Betts named this after his toddler daughter Jessica. He tried to capture the way she moved and played in the melody. This is a great song. Trucks and Haynes are great players and did it justice. The band was great. I hope we don't lose melodic jam bands like this in the future.
why not just enjoy it for what it is? Why this constant trolling/hating? These two guys are carrying the torch for great playing, composing, collaborating and all you have to offer is "it ain't as good as...." In fact this IS the Allman Brothers Band, get used to it. They may not be the same without Dickey true, but they are pretty damn great too.
Yeah, I don't really get why people troll to begin with, but here it's just weird. Enjoy or Don't Enjoy and keep it moving is how I look at it. #whatchagonnado
+bullguit I agree with you 100% Warren and Derek are great players in their own right. Derek is a young legend IMO This is some kick ass guitar playing!
I think it's fairly legitimate to say that Derek Trucks can never BE Duane Allman as well as Duane Allman could, Eric Gales BE Hendrix and all that. There was a highwater mark for originality set by the originals that can never be met, because somebody else will always be playing SOMEBODY ELSE'S songs. Personally, I think it's a compliment on the part of younger musicians to treat the Allman Brothers, Hendrix, and Grateful Dead songs as "new standards" in the same way you'd treat "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" or "Born Under a Bad Sign" as standards - you don't HAVE to wait for people to die, do you? Some great musicians just DON'T write very well, and I'd rather hear them play the best songs they can find than try to force themselves to rewrite the same things over and over. Derek & Warren were members of the BEST ABB cover band I'd ever heard. But "Jessica" misses Chuck....
+bullguit "Hating"? Do you mean assuming you alone have power of judgement, and that only YOUR kind sweet opinions matter? Are you a leftist, marxist dupe. Hating? Did your boyfriend put you up to this? Sweet sweet boy, full of love, rainbows and unicorns...teach us all a lesson of salvation...fruitcake by the campfire.
There may be a few different players in the ball game but this band still can rock the shingles off any venue and jam every song better than any group ever.
Amen! Trucks is a huge asset to keeping this band alive and thank God for Warren! He will forever hold a place in my book for greatest song played on slide with Blue Sky!!
If you never got to see this band live, especially with Dickey Betts you truly don't know what you missed. Me & my best friend followed these guys & the grateful dead around for several years. Those were the days before everyone had a cell phone held up in the audience. People dancing & spinning. All I can say was it was some of the happiest times of my life. It's sad how times have changed. God bless all.
Got that right, I was lucky to have seen them many times but the best were seeing them in 1970 with the original line up. First was at RFK Stadium in DC then at American University. Those were the best days of the Allman Brothers , hungry to play well & that they did. All the line ups were awesome but never will they surpass the days of old with Duane & Dickey, Berry, Jaimoe Gregg & Butch firing on all cylinders.
@@andrewhoran7088 Free Boston Common, August 1971....Full Band. Friend dragged me to it, I didn't have a clue who they were. Man, did I get an education that day!
Wow... First time I've heard the "new" lineup.. been listening to them since the "Gregg and Duane" and "Duane and Gregg" albums... good to hear the tradition was still carried on. This is a good jammed out version. Rest in Peace, Brother Gregg.
This version sounds extra sweet. I think Derek's harmony is higher than the original and Warren is playing the root melody. It's beautiful. Warren's a beast and Derek is lethal on the guitar.
This has been my favorite song for over 40 years. I’ve heard many interpretations, but they all maintain that sweet, playful, spiritual groove created by Dickey Betts, as his infant daughter, Jessica, played at his feet.
This is every bit as good as the original and these boys been playing this along time so just enjoy it as it is done. Thank god they are carrying it on.
OMG this song brings back so many memories as a teen growing up, it reminds me of Saturday afternoon on a Summers day, cruising the seaside roads where i used to live, in an open wheeled roadster, lovin it!!!
Derek and Warren are two of the best guitarists alive ... But. .. Dickey is the vital ingredient that the ABB could never replicate. This is why they continued playing Jessica and Elizabeth Reed every night, despite his absence
And the band played on, Derek Trucks is a brilliant guitarist. Everybody loves an original line up, but shit happens. Give Derek the credit he deserves.
Otel is a monster on that bass. If anyone has been following Dead & Co, you'll know what a virtuoso he truly is. Derek is also a prodigy, The Derek Truck Band, before Susan came along, was reaching some very amazing and musically interesting heights in their playing and songwriting. Warren is amazing too. Truly good bands evolve, it's a shame some fans are so stuck in the past they can't enjoy it
New to Allman Brothers but that was one of the first things I noticed listening to this video... dude is SHREDDING! and it's like all in the background. (I know that's how bass goes. You do so much work and rarely get noticed as much, but he is phenomenal here!!!!! Wish the camera showed him off a bit more!)
they still love playing this song, don't they? the joy of jessica is alive..... hard to believe the first time i heard this song it was '73 or '74.... on an 8 track. didn't even know who the allman brothers were.... i just knew i loved this song.... rip, mr allman.
I want the original and this version played at my last party, will never get tired of this instrumental ,its all good ,keyboard, percussion , the guitar is fantastic on both, no lyrics to listen to, I love it , makes me tap my feet & smile every time I hear it..
that was pretty much spotless! derek and warren just doing their class act of improvising and being the best musicians in the planet earth. The rest just playing their heart outs too. This was good. Thanks for the upload. What a treat!
I have the pleasure of making music with really good musicians. I consider myself blessed. We were raised on this music. I'm playing southern rock, jam, classic, R&B and blues with a group of guys I've known for 30+ years. All fantastic players who play from the heart. We all have day jobs to pay the bills but on weekends the 6 of us go out and play songs like this from The Allman's and so much more. This music will continue because real music lovers will keep it alive. All the sampled, processed, auto-tuned horse shit we hear today is so incredibly fake. There are always exceptions of course but the majority is dreck and it's here and gone in the blink of an eye. Songs like Jessica are timeless for a reason. We've lost so many artists from this beautiful era of music. Just from The Brothers alone -> Gregg, Duane, Berry, Butch, Lamar, Dan, David and "Woody". RIP
I saw the original ABB band in February 1970 (they opened for the Dead and later joined the Dead and members of the original Fleetwood Mac line up for a 3-hour jam). I have seen many ABB versions over the years, including the band on this song when they closed Lock'n Festival in September 2014. There was some rocky times with Dickey Betts and some other guys on guitar #2 in the late 1990s, prior to the Haynes/Trucks duo, but since they reestablished the groove, it's been all good. Ain't no time to hate, my friends. "Caterpillar sheds its skin to find a butterfly within." How can you get down on anyone who can turn THAT into an anthem!
@Korbon Dallas obviously you also have a reading comprehension problem as he said he saw the original in '70 with the dead. I know someone who also was there.
@Korbon Dallas not bored at all, I was out enjoying the beautiful weather at the beach today. Love watching the waves crash and the roar of the ocean. BTW, you need to associate with a better class of people. Stop hanging with those beiber believers.
I'm going to miss this band first time I saw them was 1975, Jessica was the first song I ever heard from them we named our daughter after this song. Since 1975 I have seen them 50 + times . 3 times in one week . Never the same show . Most bands play songs note for note. Not the Allman Brothers that's what made them special.
I haven't seen them, but I have seen dave matthews band live a good handful of times, and i know what you're saying. Every concert is different and new in its own way. I'm getting chills just thinking about it.
Saw them live twice in early '70s and I agree w/ you; they would go off and do their improvisations and that was truly impressing and amazing. They really touched your soul.
Shut up. Close your eyes. Lay back. Enjoy, This is beautiful music. Maybe one day this will be popular again! This is so smooth and silky, like floating on the ocean.
shizzlenoits Gregg isn't the only original member. Butch and Jaimoe are originals. Derek is part of the family, nephew to Butch Trucks. They're not just glorifying the past. These are *amazing musicians* giving us fans the gift of their music.
Colleen Meegan Derek IMO is a bit overrated. He plays Slide OK but can't touch what Duane did in his short career. Conversely think Warren is underrated. He has a very soulful voice and has stage presence besides being a brilliant guitarist. These guys say they won't play together again but only time will tell....
Thundergod129 I've never heard Derek and Warren claim they won't play together again. ? Dickey will be playing with Derek and Susan very soon in their show. And everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's a shame you're not more aware of Derek's talent. I'm a huge Duane fan and I'm also a huge Derek fan. I definitely know that you could never touch either one of those fine soul's talents, so opinions can be overrated as well.
c. k. sandi What I heard was that they wouldn't play together as The Allman Bros. In fact they recently did their last show. But we all know that money has coaxed many out of retirement. As far as Derek, well it really IS a matter of opinion. He was blessed to be born into such an iconic band but there will never be anything as awesome as Dickey and Skydog playing those double leads. And opinions can't be over or underrated but again that also is a matter of opinion I guess....
For once in RU-vid, an Epic description that fits the performance. I'm biased of course because I love this number, but this is a great live recording with all the beauty of the studio version.
We Lost A Legend Today ~~ RIP Gregg Allman ~~ Thank You For The Decades Of Music And The Memories. They Will Live On Forever But A Voice And Talent Like Yours Can NEVER Be Duplicated ~~~ 5-27-17
That was an ABSOLUTE PLEASURE to listen to! I actually jumped out of my chair to give a standing ovation in my own living room. Too bad it was only 13 minutes. ;-) I guess people need a break once and a while. Thanks again for the post.
I am so glad to finally read a comment where someone else is "full concert mode" like I get. I even flick my BIC! My kids are 15 and 25 now, so they are used to it...in fact when I started whooping right at that beautiful climbing solo,my girl came out of her room and looked at her brother and said, "Here goes mom!"I have not been to a big festival since moving to Hawaii, and my spirit yearns to break free! Thanks RU-vid!
great version of one of my favorite songs. I loved the original band, how Duane and Dickie could jam and jam and then come together out of the blue with those sweet harmony lines.This is one of my happiest songs, just makes me smile, even without lyrics, reminds me of falling in love with a beautiful young woman and sweet that is.
On tonight’s show Jeremy points at a man, James eats a pie and Richard crashes (obviously) in all seriousness this is the some of the guitar work I’ve ever heard
This live's version is more alike what Top Gear uses. I almost burst into tears just for that. "Tonight, I wear a hat, Richard wears a hat, and James, wears a hat."
OH the Les Paul...my favorite guitar! Being a girl from generations of musicians, makes me appreciate the makers and designers of all these instruments....les Paul, what a guy....my mother played a style like Chet Atkins...she taught me how to do it all. I was singing on a gospel radio show at the age of 5...I remember my little sister standing on a box and looking through the glass at the DJ. This was in the late 50s! Now, no musicians exist. I am all dressed up in a karaoke machine with no where to go. Having these videos on RU-vid means everything to me. Thank you RU-vid! 💥💥💥
Remember guys, you aren't just here because of Top Gear or Guitar Hero. You're here because of them AND the fact that the Allman Brothers rock so much that you had to look them up. Screw the promoters and give the band themselves some credit! You owe them for illegally downloading their songs like I'm about to do...
My dad and I have been to 20+ ABB shows together, and honestly I don't know how to describe it....its just something that I will never forget and it has changed my life....
I could have gone for a larger helping of this, a double. . . with ease. PSA to lamenting over the past, life moves in one direction, so remember these immortal word of Sir Stills: And if you can't hear the Duane you love, love the one you with.
Thank you! I really needed a good dose of this. I planned on seeing Dickie Betts tomorrow night, had 4th row center seats to see him play with his son Duane, who not only plays well but looks just like his dad. Sadly, they had to postpone the concert. Dickie had a mild stroke. (Aug 2018) All I can say is I hope he is well enough soon to continue with his tour. I'm so grateful I had a chance to see them back in the day and so happy they shared their talents with their kids, who are talented in their own right. Will they be exactly like their dads? No. But perhaps they can find their own grove and mark in music history.
