Heirs to the Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers Band, Widespread Panic was
born in Athens, Georgia, in 1986. Friends since high school, singer John Bell
and guitarist Mike Houser were joined by bassist Dave Schools, drummer Todd
Nance, percussionist Domingo Ortiz and keyboardist John Hermann. Their first
album, Space Wrangler, was released in 1988 on the independent Landslide label,
before they signed with Capricorn, who released Widespread Panic in 1991, which
sounded like a new departure. From then on, the releases followed one another,
particularly the concert tapes the ban...