# The Best Jimmy Herring Guitar Solos

> The 14 best Jimmy Herring guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Scapegoat Blues (2008), then Hope and Within You Without You. Every video starts at the solo.

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Jimmy Herring fuses bebop vocabulary, southern blues and rock power into a horn-like lead style prized throughout the jam-band world. From the Aquarium Rescue Unit to Widespread Panic and his solo records, he is a musician's guitarist of rare fluency.

Informed by: [Wikipedia – Jimmy Herring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Herring), [Wikipedia – Lifeboat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_(album)), [Jambands.com](https://jambands.com/reviews/cds/2012/08/22/jimmy-herring-subject-to-change-without-notice/), [MusicRadar](https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/famous-firsts-widespread-panics-jimmy-herring-565512)

1. [Scapegoat Blues](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimmy-herring-scapegoat-blues/) — Jimmy Herring · solo by Jimmy Herring · 2008
2. [Hope](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimmy-herring-hope/) — Jimmy Herring · solo by Jimmy Herring · 2012
3. [Within You Without You](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimmy-herring-within-you-without-you/) — Jimmy Herring · solo by Jimmy Herring · 2012
4. [Kaleidoscope Carousel](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimmy-herring-kaleidoscope-carousel/) — Jimmy Herring · solo by Jimmy Herring · 2012
5. [Only When It's Light](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimmy-herring-only-when-it-s-light/) — Jimmy Herring · solo by Jimmy Herring · 2008
6. [Jungle Book Overture](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimmy-herring-jungle-book-overture/) — Jimmy Herring · solo by Jimmy Herring · 2008
7. [Lost](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimmy-herring-lost/) — Jimmy Herring · solo by Jimmy Herring · 2008
8. [Splash](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimmy-herring-splash/) — Jimmy Herring · solo by Jimmy Herring · 2008
9. [Aberdeen](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimmy-herring-aberdeen/) — Jimmy Herring · solo by Jimmy Herring · 2012
10. [Twelve Keys](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimmy-herring-twelve-keys/) — Jimmy Herring · solo by Jimmy Herring · 2012
11. [Red Wing Special](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimmy-herring-red-wing-special/) — Jimmy Herring · solo by Jimmy Herring · 2012
12. [Dirty Side Down](https://greatestsolos.com/song/widespread-panic-dirty-side-down/) — Widespread Panic · solo by Jimmy Herring · 2010
13. [Night of a Thousand Stars](https://greatestsolos.com/song/phil-lesh-and-friends-night-of-a-thousand-stars/) — Phil Lesh and Friends · solo by Jimmy Herring · 2002
14. [Gray Day](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimmy-herring-gray-day/) — Jimmy Herring · solo by Jimmy Herring · 2008

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