Doin' My Time
| Originally Performed By | Jimmie Skinner |
| Original Album | Single (1941) |
| Music/Lyrics | Jimmie Skinner |
| Vocals | Tim O'Brien (lead) |
| Recommended Versions | 1999-07-01 |
| Historian | Mark Toscano |
| Last Update | 2025-10-14 |
History
Seek out both versions of this song for some fun special guest action. Tim O’Brien joined Phish for the last three songs of the 8/7/96 first set, closing the three-song medley with a strong version of this old Jimmie Skinner tune. The real keeper is 7/1/99, though, which features O’Brien (fiddle), Jerry Douglas (dobro), and Ronnie McCoury (mandolin), an all-star version that kicks, albeit respectfully, the ass of the Red Rocks version.
After playing it first in '96, Mike has continued a relationship with the song in several of his side projects. First performed with The Drop Caps (Mike, Gordon Stone, Scott Murawski, and Greg DeGuglielmo) in 1997, a recording of this show circulates. He also performed the song twice in 2003 with Grappa Boom, which included Jamie Masefield and Doug Perkins, and twice with Bill Kreutzman, first with Steve Kimock in 2007 then Scott Murawski in 2009.
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