Carbondale 2000 [PA]

Performer: Widespread Panic
Engineer: Billy Field
Distributor: City Hall

Notes: Personnel: Michael Houser (vocals, guitar); Todd Nance (drums). Audio Mixer: John Keane. Recording information: Southern Illinois University Arena, Carbondale, IL (12/01/2000). The first release on Widespread Panic's own label, Widespread Records, CARBONDALE 2000 is a three-disc recap of a marathon concert recorded at Southern Illinois University on December 1, 2000, by the band's original lineup. This is the long-running jam band at their loose and playful best, with a 22-track set list blending fan favorites with unexpected covers like a soulful version of Traffic's jazz-rock standard, "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys," and Funkadelic's psychedelic soul masterpiece, "Maggot Brain."

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.

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