Widespread Panic Stories

Setlists / Video: Widespread Panic & Tedeschi Trucks Band, Northerly Island 6/20/14

Tedeschi Trucks BandWidespread PanicOne SetFishwaterHolden Oversoul >Love TractorHope In A Hopeless WorldSleeping ManRebirtha >JamCrazyShut Up & DriveBlue IndianRed BeansLife Is Like Water (w/Jerry Joseph)Chainsaw City (w/Jerry Joseph)DrumsDark End Of The Street (w/Derek & Susan)I've Been Working (w/Derek & Susan)Stop Breaking Down (w/Derek & Susan)...

List: Fiddling Around With Widespread Panic, 6 Great Guest Fiddlers

It seems unlikely, but the sound of the fiddle just seems to fit right with Widespread Panic's improv-heavy southern rock sound.Inspired by a few recent sit-ins, I put together this list of notable jams featuring the violin throughout their history.1. There is no other fiddler that this list could possibly have started with than...

The Barn's Top Ten Things of 2013

As with last year, I'm not going to try to rank the best shows, songs or albums of the year (though some thoughts on albums are here and here). I want to use my year end list to capture the musical things that had the biggest impact on me -- and also provide an excuse...

Widespread Panic Halloween Covers Through The Years

Since 1987, if Widespread Panic was touring, you could be sure they'd play a show on October 31st. Not only that, they were always willing to put a little extra in for the Halloween show -- hell, the 1998 show even placed second in our list of the 21 Greatest Halloween Shows Of All Time. In 25 shows that...

Setlist / Review / Stream / Download: Widespread Panic @ UIC Pavilion, Chicago 4/13/13

Widespread PanicSaturday, April 13, 2013UIC Pavilion - Chicago, ILOne: Heroes, Space Wrangler > Stop Breakin' Down Blues, This Part Of Town, Saint Ex, You Got Yours, Happy, Hatfield, Chunk Of Coal, Henry Parsons DiedTwo: Love Tractor > Who Do You Belong To?, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Action Man, Jack, Stop-Go, Surprise Valley > Drums > Surprise...

The Barn's 2012 Year In Review

Are you annoyed when you see "Year In Review" type articles start popping up around the end of November? If so, I hope you're not offended by a late-January 2012 summary...The Barn is offering a few different attempts at 2012 recap. The first is my list of the best musical things of the year - a...

The 21 Greatest Halloween Concerts Of All Time

Any day with great music is like a holiday, but there are certain days on the calendar that make the live music experience even more celebratory. Even without music, the transformation that occurs in late autumn takes on a surreal, ominous tone, it's no wonder that ancient societies create myth and ritual that mirrored the...

Jamming With Pink: The Barn's Floyd Covers Mix Tape

[fblike style="standard" showfaces="false" width="450" verb="recommend" font="arial"]There are certain musical truths in this world. One of them (as this Venn Diagram explains) is that everybody loves Pink Floyd. Their fans are rabid and diverse and they've inspired musicians across a large swath of genres and backgrounds. And so, when I set...

One Foot In The Blues: The Barn's School Of Rock

Lets say youve got a ton of soul, a wealth of talent and a hell of a creative streak. You get off on loud guitars and the deep rumble of the bass. Your music is an extension of yourself, a vehicle of expression for joy, pain, melancholy, even anger. Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and Howlin...