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What is up? I am Brian Scott Rippy. Thanks for tuning into another edition of the Rippy Rights podcast powered by Twisted Tea.

We have a very special guest today. It is the keyboardist for widespread panic.

Jojo Herman, old misalong, Jojo Herman. We talked about his career in music, how his wild path

down to Oxford, Mississippi, kickstarted his music career, him loving college football, the dynamic between him and the other

members of Panic, the whole Athens, Georgia versus Ole Miss thing, very topical for this week,

and really just what he enjoys most about being a musician.

Couldn't have been a nicer guy.

I really appreciate his time, and I think you'll enjoy this interview.

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jojo herman all right we now welcome on renowned musician widespread panics jojo herman i've been looking forward to this for a while. I know we were talking a little bit yesterday. How are you, man? I appreciate you joining the show. Man, how you doing? I'm doing great. Good. And you're in Chicago for a show currently, correct? As we speak, kind of tell us a little bit more about that. Yeah, I just do a little songwriter kind of thing.

And it's at the city winery tonight. And I love those places. They treat everybody so good.

And they have really nice baby grand piano. So I enjoy playing there. Awesome. So kind of taking it back to the beginning of it, your path to Oxford and that kind of serving as a launch pad for your musical career is really interesting to me. I guess we'll start there. I read in an article that I think you did a while back. I can't remember what the site was, but your path to Oxford was pretty crazy. You just decided to go down to the south.

I know you hit your drive from the airport.

Kind of take me why you wanted to go to Oxford and how that happened.

Oh, I had a buddy up there who up in New York City, where I'm from.

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