Happy Birthday, Derek Trucks! I have posted something from this particular group, and did so, many moons ago. This is Frogwings, the super group Allman Brothers Band side project that was short-lived in the late 1990s and features some top-notch musicians in the band including Derek Trucks and Jimmy Herring on guitars, Oteil Burbridge on bass, Kofi Burbridge on keyboards, and Butch Trucks on drums. Through their history, albeit brief, they had a couple vocalists, too. Edwin McCain, and later, John Popper on vocals and harmonica (frontman for the band Blues Traveler).
"We are Frogwings from the swamp." Edwin McCain
Frogwings was a jam band supergroup that Butch Trucks pulled together in 1997. The group toured in May 1997 and included Butch on drums, Jimmy Herring and Derek Trucks on guitar; Count M'Butu and Marc Quiñones on percussion; Edwin McCain guitar/vocals, Oteil Burbridge bass, Jona Herbert keys. A December 1997 tour included Kofi Burbridge on keys (I believe Count M'Butu sat it out).
Frogwings was a band in the mold of the ABB in spirit and it carried a psychedelic, experimental bent that came directly from its guitarists, Derek Trucks (then just 17) and Jimmy Herring on guitar and Oteil Burbridge on bass. Burbridge joined the Allman Brothers Band for the Summer 1997 tour. Derek Trucks signed on with the ABB for the Summer 1999 tour. And Herring spent Summer 2000 with the band in place of Dickey Betts.
(In 1999, Butch brought Blues Traveler frontman John Popper in to replace McCain and the band recorded its sole album, Croakin' at Toads.)
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