Widespread Panic

Though they started out in the '80s in Athens, GA, Widespread Panic are as far as can be from what was known then as the "Athens scene" (R.E.M, Let's Active, Pylon, etc.). Instead, they were among the first of a new wave of jam bands picking up the baton of '60s psychedelic warriors like the Grateful Dead. Though their improvisational skills earned them a huge following, WP bore an important difference from peers like Phish; they had a distinctly Southern sound that mixed rock, jazz, and a bit of Dixie, much in the manner of key influences the Allman Brothers and the Dregs.

• Aquarium Rescue Unit
• Blues Traveler
• Dave Matthews Band
• Galactic
• Gov't Mule
• Leftover Salmon
• Moe
• Phish
• Robert Randolph & The Family Band
• Spin Doctors
• The Big Wu
• The Other Ones (Rock)
• The String Cheese Incident
• Vic Chesnutt
• Zero

• Black Sabbath
• Grateful Dead
• Jefferson Airplane
• John Coltrane/Don Cherry (Jazz)
• Junior Kimbrough & The Soul Blues Boys
• Led Zeppelin
• Max Creek
• Miles Davis
• NRBQ
• R.L. Burnside/Sound Machine
• Santana/Carlos Santana
• The Allman Brothers Band
• The Dixie Dregs
• The Meters
• The Neville Brothers

• Acoustic Syndicate
• Derek Trucks Band
• Donna The Buffalo
• Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
• North Mississippi Allstars
• Oysterhead
• Psychedelic Breakfast
• Strangefolk
• The Disco Biscuits
• The Slip
• Zen Tricksters

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