Artist: Widespread Panic Genre(s):
Rock
Other
Discography:
Earth to America Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Uber Cobra Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Night of Joy Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
Recorded Live From Athens, GA In The Spring Of 2000 Year: 2001
Tracks: 5
Don't Tell The Band Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Light Fuse Get Away CD2 Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
Light Fuse Get Away CD1 Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Widespread Panic Year: 1994
Tracks: 13
One of the many neo-hippie block bands inheriting the road-warrior mantle left behind by the Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic naturalized a devout grassroots following on the intensity of changeless touring and a loose, rootsy make of Southern rock informed by jazz and megrims textures. The group's origins dated to 1982, when singer John Bell and guitar player Mike Houser number one began playing together spell attendance college in Athens, GA; when bassist Dave Schools left academia to join the duette the future year, Widespread Panic was officially born. The ring recorded their debut single, "Coco palm Image," in 1986; drummer Todd Nance united soon after, followed by the addition of percussionist Domingo "Gay" Ortiz and eventually keyboardist John "JoJo" Hermann.
Widespread Panic released their energetic debut LP,
Space Wrangler, in 1988 on the diminutive Landslide label; afterwards respective days of persistent touring, they gestural to major label Capricorn, which issued the group's eponymously highborn sophomore exertion in 1991. Appearances on the 1992 and 1993 H.O.R.D.E. tours greatly expanded their fan base prior to 1993's
Everyday, patch 1994's
Ain't Life Grand spawned the AOR hits "Aeroplane" and "Can't Get High." After teaming with fellow Georgian Vic Chesnutt to record 1995's
Baseball club High a Pallet under the list Brute, Widespread Panic reconvened for the record album
Bombs and Butterflies, released in 1997. In the springtime of 1998, the band released
Light Fuse, Get Away. Til the Medicine Takes followed a year by and by.
Another Joyous Occasion (2000) and
Don't Tell the Band (2001) pronounced the band's first albums of the newfangled millennium. In June 2002, Widespread Panic returned to the route for their annual summer duty tour of the States, just inside a month, introduction penis and jumper cable guitarist Michael Houser had to bow out. Houser was battling genus Cancer and returned menage to Athens, GA, to breathe while guitarist George McConnell stepped in to destination the go. On August 10, 2002, Houser succumbed to complications from pancreatic cancer at the age of 40.
Houser's wish was that the dance band would carry on after his passing, and with McConnell comely a permanent surrogate, Widespread Panic did just that. Their next full-length album,
Ball was released in April of 2003.
Night of Joy and
Ãœber Cobra, both of which appeared in previous March 2004, featured live selections from deuce of the band's shows at The House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, SC, piece they toured in support of
Musket ball. It marked Widespread Panic's mo and third alive efforts, follow-ups up to 2000's
Some other Joyous Occasion. They returned to the studio apartment after that yr for the Halloween-themed covers record
Jackassolantern and once more in 2006 for
Earth to America.
