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Johnson City 2001
''Johnson City 2001'' is a complete concert album by Widespread Panic. The three disc set is the fifth release from the Widespread Panic archives. The performance was recorded live at Freedom Hall Civic Center in Johnson City, Tennessee on November 20, 2001. The multi-track recording featured all original band members including the late guitarist, Michael Houser. Track listing Disc 1 # "L.A." (Widespread Panic) - 4:45 # "Wondering" (Widespread Panic) - 7:41 # "It Ain't No Use" ( Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste / Art Neville / Leo Nocentelli / George Porter Jr.) - 10:27 # "Impossible" (Widespread Panic) - 5:04 # "Worry" (Widespread Panic) - 7:16 # "New Blue" (Widespread Panic) - 4:41 # "Holden Oversoul" (Widespread Panic) - 8:03 # "Stop-Go" (Widespread Panic) - 10:20 # "Makes Sense To Me" (Daniel Hutchens) - 4:27 Disc 2 # "Weak Brain, Narrow Mind" (Willie Dixon) - 9:13 # "One Arm Steve" (Widespread Panic) - 4:04 # "Old Neighborhood" (Widespread Panic) - 6:22 # "Trouble" (Cat Steven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Widespread Panic
Widespread Panic is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia. The current lineup includes guitarist/singer John Bell (musician), John Bell, bassist Dave Schools, drummer Duane Trucks, percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz, keyboardist John "JoJo" Hermann, and guitarist Jimmy Herring. The band's original guitarist and sometime songwriter, Michael Houser, died of pancreatic cancer in 2002, and the original drummer, Todd Nance, left in 2016 and died in 2020. The band was formed in Athens in 1986, and is influenced by southern rock, blues rock, progressive rock, funk and hard rock genres. They have been compared to other jam band, jam bands including the Grateful Dead and Phish. Widely renowned for their live performances, they have held the record for number of sold-out performances at Red Rocks Amphitheatre and State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Band history 1981–1995: early years and rise to national attention John Bell (musician), John Bell and Michael Houser met in 1981 in their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syd Barrett
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. Until his departure in 1968, he was Pink Floyd's frontman and primary songwriter, known for his whimsical style of psychedelia and stream-of-consciousness writing. As a guitarist, he was influential for his free-form playing and for employing effects such as dissonance, distortion, echo and feedback. Trained as a painter, Barrett was musically active for just over ten years. With Pink Floyd, he recorded the first three singles, their debut album '' The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'' (1967), part of their second album ''A Saucerful of Secrets'' (1968), and several songs that were not released until years later. In April 1968, Barrett left the band amid speculation of mental illness and his use of psychedelic drugs. He began a brief solo career in 1969 with the single "Octopus", followed by albums '' The Madcap Laughs' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domingo Ortiz
Domingo Steven "Sunny" Ortiz (born July 4, 1952) is an American musician best known as the longtime percussionist for Widespread Panic. Life and career Domingo Ortiz was born in 1952 to Victor and Faye Ortiz. He is of Mexican heritage and grew up in Waco, Texas. With his parents' help, he bought his first drum kit as a teenager. He played his first professional gig at the age of 15 in the 1960s at a bar with his Uncle Cruz's band. His parents were initially against the idea of him performing with a rock band but came around to the idea when they learned he would be paid $35 for the performance. Ortiz began his career on a standard drum set, but shifted to bongos, congas, timbales and other percussion instruments as a way to distinguish himself from other drummers in Texas. In 1986 he moved to Athens, Georgia where he met up with the members of the newly formed Widespread Panic. Playing percussion, he performed with them for the first time on October 6, 1986. He continued to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hermann
John "JoJo" Hermann (born July 18, 1962) is an American singer, musician and songwriter, best known for his involvement in the band Widespread Panic. Early life He was born in New York City and attended Collegiate School, where he was a classmate of actor Billy Wirth''The Dutchman'' (the Collegiate School yearbook), 1975 edition, page 33 and the journalist J. Peder Zane; he and Zane were pitchers on the school's baseball team. He began performing in small clubs while in college, including a ska group, The Terrorists, that included Wayne Kramer, and moved to Oxford, Mississippi after graduation. Hermann began songwriting and performing in 1983. Career Hermann began playing piano in the local band Beanland with George McConnell on guitar appearing on JoJo's Defector, Smiling Assassin. After a friend of the band heard Hermann playing on an old upright piano at the Hoka Club also in Oxford. After extensive touring of the Southeast with Beanland, he then went on to join Athens, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Nance
Todd Nance (November 20, 1962August 19, 2020) was an American musician. He was best known as the original drummer of Widespread Panic, a band he was a member of until his departure in 2016. He struggled with chronic illness for the remainder of his life, ultimately leading up to his death in 2020. Early life Todd Nance was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. As a child, he began playing the guitar; subsequently he was given his first drum kit on Christmas Day, 1975. It was around this time that he attended his first concert, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and was inspired to pursue music more seriously. He first met his future Widespread Panic bandmate Michael Houser in high school in either 1977 or 1978 and they formed the band Just Us. After graduating from Chattanooga Central High School in 1981, Nance moved to Atlanta. Widespread Panic Nance reconnected with Michael Houser in 1986 and joined the band that Houser had formed with John Bell and Dave Schools. The quartet performed their f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Schools
David Allen Schools (born December 11, 1964) is a bass player and founding member of American rock band Widespread Panic. He is also a record producer, songwriter and journalist with articles published in a wide variety of music magazines. Schools lives in Sonoma County, California with his two dogs; when not on tour he likes to garden. Schools is an innovator on the bass with a non-traditional approach that has given him a unique voice on the instrument. With his primary band, Widespread Panic, he plays a six-string Modulus Quantum 6 bass that affords him a wide range of sounds that are further enhanced by an envelope filter and octave pedal. Influenced by an early desire to play drums and childhood piano lessons, Schools has deviated from, though not abandoned, the established rhythm role of the bass and created a more melodic, improvisational style that has been referred to as “lead bass.” Early years Dave Schools was born in Richmond, Virginia, United States. His dad bou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bell (musician)
John Farmer Bell (born April 14, 1962) is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist and occasional mandolin player for the American rock band Widespread Panic. Bell grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated from University School in 1980. He attended the University of Georgia and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity where he, Michael Houser, and Dave Schools met while Houser was playing at an open mic night. "Panic," as Houser was nicknamed, began playing with JB and Schools at local Athens clubs, playing mostly cover songs. Bell is an active philanthropist, most notably as an advocate for SMA (spinal muscular atrophy). Bell has helped raise over $2 million for SMA research, mostly through his involvement with "Hannah's Buddies". The foundation is named for Bell's goddaughter and niece, who lives with SMA. Bell is involved in an annual fundraiser featuring a golf tournament and evening concert by "JB and Friends," featuring John Bell solo, as well as performing with gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Joe Shaver
Billy Joe Shaver (August 16, 1939 – October 28, 2020) was an American singer and songwriter. Billy Joe was a prominent figure in the outlaw country genre. He is considered one of the great American songwriters of his generation. He has received praise from Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and many others. Artists including Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Tom T. Hall and Johnny Cash have recorded his songs. Biography Shaver was born in Corsicana, Texas, and raised by his mother, Victory Watson Shaver. Until he was 12, he spent a great deal of time with his grandmother in Corsicana, so his mother could work in Waco. He sometimes accompanied his mother to her job at a local nightclub, where he was first exposed to country music. Shaver's mother remarried about the time that his grandmother died, and Shaver and his older sister Patricia moved in with their mother and new stepfather. Shaver left school after the eighth grade to help his uncles pick cotton, but occasion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be A Diamond Someday)
"I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)" is a song written and originally recorded by Billy Joe Shaver. American country music artist John Anderson released the song in March 1981 as the first single from his album '' John Anderson 2''. The song reached number 4 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song is briefly sung by the title character in one scene of '' Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'' and featured in the end credits of Norm Macdonald's Netflix comedy special '' Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special''. Two covers of the song were released in 2022, performed by Jamey Johnson on the John Anderson tribute album ''Something Borrowed, Something New'' and Miranda Lambert Miranda Leigh Lambert (born November 10, 1983) is an American country music, country singer. Born in Longview, Texas, she started out in early 2001 when she released her self-titled debut album independently. In 2003, she finished in third place ... on the Billy Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Rachell
Yank Rachell (born James A. Rachel; March 16, 1910 – April 9, 1997) was an American country blues musician who has been called an "elder statesman of the blues". His career as a performer spanned nearly seventy years, from the late 1920s to the 1990s. Career Rachell grew up in Brownsville, Tennessee. His gravestone marks his birth year as 1920. However, researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc conclude, on the basis of a 1920 census entry, that Rachell was probably born in 1903. In 1958, during the American folk music revival, he moved to Indianapolis. He recorded for Delmark Records and Blue Goose Records. He was a capable guitarist and singer but was better known as a master of the blues mandolin. He bought his first mandolin at age eight, in a trade for a pig his family had given him to raise. He often performed with the guitarist and singer Sleepy John Estes. "She Caught the Katy," which he wrote with Taj Mahal, is considered a blues standard. He appeared in the 1985 docum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taj Mahal (musician)
Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. (born May 17, 1942), better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments,Evans, et al., xii. often incorporating elements of world music into his work. Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, India, Hawaii, and the South Pacific.Komara, 951. Early life Mahal was born Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. on May 17, 1942, in New York City. Growing up in Springfield, Massachusetts, Springfield, Massachusetts, he was raised in a musical environment: his mother was a member of a local gospel choir and his father, Henry Saint Claire Fredericks Sr., was an Afro-Caribbean jazz arranger and piano player. The family owned a shortwave radio which received music broadcasts from around the world, exposing him at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Caught The Katy
"She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride)" is an upbeat blues written by Taj Mahal and James Rachell. It was first released on Taj Mahal's 1968 album '' The Natch'l Blues'', and it is one of Mahal's most famous compositions. The song has since become a blues standard and has been covered many times. It was used on the soundtrack for the 1980 movie ''The Blues Brothers'' (the song plays over the opening credits as Jake Blues leaves prison). According to Judith Jacklin, John Belushi's widow, it was Belushi's favorite blues song. The "Katy" refers to the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad. See also *List of train songs A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks. Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the ... References 1968 songs Taj Mahal (musician) songs The Blues Brothers songs The Youngbloods songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
