It's rare for an instrumental piece to make the Firecracker 500, but this little number by The Allman Brothers Band is one of the exceptions ...
Jessica was first released on the Allman Brothers' 1973 album Brothers and Sisters. For those of us who have ever shared an office with true motorheads (the WNEW archivist currently does so), we also recognize it as the opening theme to the British auto enthusiast television series, Top Gear, though in that case, it is an updated cover version that is played.
Dickey Betts, guitarist of the band, wrote the song as a tribute to Django Reinhardt, the famous jazz guitarist who could only use two fingers while playing as the result of a childhood industry. Appropriately, the guitar part to Jessica can be played using only two fingers. The song itself was named for Betts' daughter, and it comes in at a Top 100 #57 on the 1991 Firecracker 500, falling to #237 for the 1996 list.t.
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