Three shows at TheOrionAmp last year wasn’t enough. WidespreadPanic is coming back for another triptych this summer.
Widespread Panic’s most streamed studio tracks on Spotify include “Pickin’ Up The Pieces,” “Ain’t Life Grand,” “Up All Night,” and “Climb To Safety.”
But the band, founded circa 1986 in Athens, Ga., has made their name and fortune on live performances. The band’s elastic Southern interplay has made them stars of the jam-band scene for the last 35 years or so., and bassist Dave Schools.
Widespread Panic’s classic albums include LPs like their 1988 debut “Space Wrangler” and 1999′s “‘Til the Medicine Takes.” Their 1993 album “Everyday” was recorded at Alabama’s Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, and the cover art featured a photo of a young and then-unknown actress named Angelina Jolie.iconic local dive-bar Tip Top CaféOn April 3, 1996 in Huntsville, Widespread Panic played what’s widely regarded as one of the band’s best concerts ever.
In addition to fan-beloved originals such as “Porch Song” and “Love Tractor” that night at the VBC, the band ran through inspired covers of Bloodkin’s “Can’t Get High,” Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain” and Dr. John’s “I Walk On Gilded Splinters.” The rock gods seemed to have decreed 2023 as “the summer of jam” at Orion Amphitheater. Multi-night runs there by extended-solo enthusiasts
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