Biography

Though they started out in the '80s in Athens, GA, Widespread Panic are as far as can be from what was known then as the "Athens scene" (R.E.M, Let's Active, Pylon, etc.). Instead, they were among the first of a new wave of jam bands picking up the baton of '60s psychedelic warriors like the Grateful Dead. Though their improvisational skills earned them a huge following, WP bore an important difference from peers like Phish; they had a distinctly Southern sound that mixed rock, jazz, and a bit of Dixie, much in the manner of key influences the Allman Brothers and the Dregs.

Top Tracks

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• Ain't Life Grand

• All Time Low

• Ball Of Confusion (that's What The World Is Today)

• Barstools And Dreamers

• Bayou Lena

• Big Wooly Mammoth

• Blackout Blues

• Blue Indian

• Boom Boom Boom

• Bowlegged Woman

• Can't Find My Way Home

• Can't Get High

• Chilly Water

• Christmas Katie

• Coconut

• Conrad

• Crazy

• Dirty Business

• Fishwater

• Flicker

• Geraldine & The Honey Bee

• Greta

• Her Dance Needs No Body

• Hope In A Hopeless World

• I Wish

• Jaded Tourist

• Love Tractor

• Meeting Of The Waters

• Papa's Home

• Pickin' Up The Pieces

• Porch Song

• Rebirtha

• Saint Ex

• Second Skin

• Sleeping Man

• Slippin' Into Darkness

• Space Wrangler

• Sympathy For The Devil

• Thin Air (smells Like Mississippi)

• This Cruel Thing

• Thought Sausage

• Travelin' Light

• Travelin' Man

• Walk On

• Walkin' (for Your Love)

• Weight Of The World

• Wondering

• You Should Be Glad

Discography

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• Live in the Classic City II, MM

  ATO

  2010

• Dirty Side Down

  ATO

  2010

• Free Somehow

  Widespread Records

  2008

• Earth to America

  Sanctuary

  2006

• Live at Myrtle Beach

  Sanctuary

  2005

• Jackassolantern

  Sanctuary

  2004

• Über Cobra

  Sanctuary

  2004

• Night of Joy

  Sanctuary

  2004

• Ball

  Sanctuary

  2003

• Live in the Classic City

  Sanctuary

  2002

• Don't Tell the Band

  Sanctuary

  2001

• Another Joyous Occasion

  Widespread Records

  2000

• 'Til the Medicine Takes

  Zomba

  1999

• Panic in the Streets

  Volcano 3 / Volcano Records

  1998

• Light Fuse, Get Away

  Volcano Records

  1998

• Bombs & Butterflies

  Zomba

  1997

• Ain't Life Grand

  Sony Music Distribution / Volcano Records / Volcano Entertainment

  1994

• Everyday

  Volcano 3 / Volcano Records

  1993

• Widespread Panic

  Zomba

  1991

• Space Wrangler

  Zomba

  1988