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The Best of Mountain Stage Live Volume Five
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Cities Sampler Volume 9 [KTCZ] [1997]
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Earth to America
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Widespread Panic Album Review:
check this out too at 2006-07-08
I am a big fan of rootsy, acoustic rock with some jam band style, but not too much jam band style. This album is a fantastic treat that consistently delivers great music, song after song. If you enjoy this album and are looking for some similar albums then I recommend the following: 1) Beneath These Fireworks by Matt Nathanson2) Good To Be Here by Ernest Goodlife Band3) 1972 by Josh Rouse
Widespread Panic Album Review:
WSP searching for who they are and seem LOST at 2006-06-23
I agree WSP is no longer a GUITAR BANDI have been a fan since 93 and have been to over 200 liveWSP shows. This band used to be about extend guitar jams andwonderful melodic guitar riffs. With lyrics that were heady and heartfelt. How can a band with 2 drummersand 2 guitar players sound so flat and lifeless. JBs vocalare over produced and unatural sounding. The lyrics are cheesy(way to much piano, horns and overproduced singing)Save your cash and buy something else. This CD is 1 star but I gave an extra since I have been a deadicated fan for 13 years
Widespread Panic Album Review:
this band sounds tired or uninspired at 2006-07-04
I just bought this CD to try something new. The musicsounds very uninspired. The singing is below average andthe lyrical content is kinda silly. The CD opens withSecond Skin which is ok but bores me after 6 minutesof the same ol same ol. The best song by far is Solid Rockwhich is pretty good. Then the CD gets boring and repetativethrough outNot very creative for a band with over 15 years experience
Widespread Panic Album Review:
Id rate it 3.5 if that were an option at 2006-06-30
ETA is a solid although not spectacular album by WSP. I say that while comparing it to their classic albums like Space Wrangler and Everyday. The album has some really solid moments and is yet another progression. WSP is such an underrated band....or perhaps underappreciated. Their real popularity is illustrated through solid ticket sales around the US year-after-year. The standout tracks are Second Skin(terrific jam), Goodpeople(groovin track w/classic change in direction in the middle), From The Cradle, Time Zones(great beach/island sounding song). If you like WSP youll like the disc. If you dont like WSP this album probably wont change your opinion. The one thing I really would have liked to see is more lead guitar solos from George McConnell. His talents are always on display during the live shows. For whatever reason hes relegated to rhythym guitar and slide solos. Theyre good. But I would have liked to hear more ripping solos. Good album.....solid by their standards but not in the upper echelon of Panic classics.
Widespread Panic Album Review:
Just Good Music at 2006-07-29
Being the Spread-Head as I am, I can say that this album just goes to show that Panic can still make some great music. For those of you who dont listen to or have only heard once, then this album probably isnt for you. I suggest purchasing one of their earlier albums such as their self-entitled one, Space Wrangler, or Aint Life Grand. Some of the highlights in this album are:Solid Rock -- 8/10Second Skin -- 8.5/10Time Zones -- 9/10Good People -- 8/10And for those of you who took the time to rate this album one star as well as write a horrible review, I feel sorry for you. You obviously dont like good music and should go listen to some emo. The instrumental ability of each Panic member is unparalleled and should none of their music deserves below three stars.
Widespread Panic Album Editorial:
iEarth to America marks the 20th anniversary of Georgias premier road warriors on record (they actually formed in the early-1980s). To reward fans for their support theres a lot of bang for the buck on this 62-minute recording including 11-minute space-funk jam Second Skin which gets the party started. Sadly 2006 also marks the fourth anniversary of Michael Panic Housers passing. That year they added George McConnell on guitar recorded 2003s iBall and then took an uncharacteristic 15-month break. For their next effort the sextet decided to shake up their usual production process by trading John Keanes Athens for Terry Mannings Bahamas-based Compass Point Studios (whose clients include Lenny Kravitz and ZZ Top). Manning also loaned the band Robert Johnsons Dobro for the Canned Heat-meets-Blues Traveler jaunt Ribs and Whiskey another album highlight. Despite the loss of their co-founder Widespread Panics ninth studio effort isnt a downer#151;a thoughtful enterprise perhaps but not a pessimistic one as John Bell affirms in the penultimate track You should be glad. Fittingly its followed by May Your Glass Be Filled an adaptation of a poem dedicated to Houser. Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Live at Myrtle Beach
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Widespread Panic Album Review:
New era for Widespread Panic at 2005-09-08
WIDESPREAD PANIC HAS CHANGED AND THIS ALBUM IS DIFFERENT FROM PREVIOUS LIVE RELEASES.The is a 2 CD album that contains the second and third set plus encore from a concert in 2005. (The first set, which is acoustic is on Uber Cobra). The first CD is 52 minutes long and the second CD is 62 minutes. The sound quality is very good. An added plus is that most of the between song chat as been edited out and the audience noise is kept to a minimum.Widespread Panic has changed since Mike Howser died in 2002. This album is different than previous live releases in style and song selection. Mike Howser had a unique guitar style that drove the sound of the band. He has been replaced by George McConnell who has a more traditional southern jam style of playing. He isnt as good as Howser, but in some respects, the band has gotten better due to the change.Previously, Widespread Panic had a very muddled sound, featuring Howsers screaming guitar. With McConnell, the sound is brighter and clearer and the individual members of the band are easier to hear.Previously, Widespread Panic would play up to 20 songs in a concert. They would blend one song into the next so sometimes the individual songs were indistinguishable. Although they were constantly jamming, song length would typically be 5 to 10 minutes. The jamming mainly ocurred during the segues between songs. But, solos were usually shorter and between songs.Now, Widespread Panic is not combining songs and each song is distinct. Songs can now be much longer, with long, drawn out jams in the middle. The band has also begun to experiment a little more and branch out from the original sound. For instance, there is a little space jam in Dirty Business and some vocalizing during Chilly Water. It isnt a lot of innovation, but it is a start.What is good about this CD is that most of the material has not been available on other live CDs. Half the songs are covers of other groups or traditional blues numbers. The group still suffers from some horrible piano solos. John Herrman makes some interesting rhythm contributions, but is really not a great soloist. The band should take a clue from groups like the Grateful Dead, who kept the keyboards in the background and the solos simple when they had Keith Godcheax. While this is not a great album, it is a good addition to Widespread Panics library of live CDs. It is certainly different than the previous releases. My favorite Panic live CD is Classic City.
Widespread Panic Album Review:
Solid Live Album, Better than Uber Cobra at 2005-03-07
I have a tendency to compare all live WSP releases to Light Fuse, Get Away, which I think is clearly their best live release to date. Even though this release is from the same set of shows as Uber Cobra and Night of Joy, there is a tightness and comfort to these songs which seems oddly absent from the others. Maybe because Uber Cobra is an acoustic set, and the flaws are easier to pick out, Im not sure. George seems to be coming into his own with the band and I hear it more here. If you dont own any live Panic, start with L.F.G.A. and then pick this or Live in the Classic City next. Either way you cant go wrong with a great live set of music.
Widespread Panic Album Review:
Rock Solid.....pretty damn good at 2005-02-25
This latest installmenet from the Myrtle Beach show is typical Panic. Easily proving it worth. I might give Light Fuse and Get Away the edge as my favorite live release. But Live at Myrtle Beach certainly gets the job done, as a fresh new batch to jam on, while we all start getting juiced for the tour. No Phish, Dead, ...and over a year off. Prepare for the hottest, hungryest tour on the jam scene in yrs. And definately take this disc with you to the shows!
Widespread Panic Album Review:
Its Live Panic. Nothing more, nothing less. at 2005-02-24
This is pretty good. One thing of note is that if you couple this with the Uber Cobra CD, you get Panics full 11/8/03 show in its entirety. Cobra being the first set. Disc 1 here being the second set. Disc 2 being the 3rd set plus encore. Enjoy.
Widespread Panic Album Review:
Just Grand!! at 2005-08-13
DO not be put off by any of the luke warm reviews of this cd... This is a very solid effort and even though it was recorded in late 2003 just before their year off in 2004 the guys are in fine form. Some highlights are Dont Wanna Lose You which features great guitar work by long time producer John Keane, great Henry Parsons Died and Postcard on disk 2... Also having just seen Panic in concert this summer Im here to tell you this cd is great to pick up if youve seen them this year as it captures their sound just as they are in concert these days and if youre like me youll enjoy listening and remembering your concert as you look forward to the next show..
Widespread Panic Album Editorial:
Well into their third decade as heirs to both the Grateful Deads jam band mantle and the roots-entangled legacy of Southern rock this 11-track double-disc live set showcases Widespread Panics loping energetic charms well. Recorded before an enthusiastic live audience of Spread Heads at Myrtle Beachs House of Blues the five veterans turn in a workmanlike set fueled by flawless rhythmic interplay and tastefully succinct soloing the byproduct of decades of ceaseless touring--and apt tribute to the wishes of late band co-founder Mike Houser who succumbed to cancer in 2002. They dose Conrad the Caterpillar and Henry Parsons Died with bracing jazz-head interludes lube Dont Wanna Lose You with the greasy slide-guitar driven spirit of classic Little Feat and evoke Lynyrd Skynyrds grit on Postcard. But while they make room for the tasty Southern fried licks of guest guitarist John Keane on covers of NRPS Dirty Business and Robert Johnsons Stop Breakin Down Blues theres a nagging sense that this is a band content to preach to the converted. Thats a shame because their stellar musicianship promises so much more. Jerry McCulley
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