Widespread Panic, Don't Tell the Band - 56m 7s

Tracks & Durations

1. Little Lilly	5:07
2. Give	3:29
3. Imitaton Leather Shoes	4:14
4. This Part of Town	5:20
5. Sometimes	3:32
6. Thought Sausage	4:39
7. Down	3:52
8. Big Wooly Mammoth > Tears of a Woman	6:45
9. Casa Del Grillo	6:30
10. Old Joe	3:50
11. Action Man	4:30
12. Don't Tell the Band	4:10

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Review

While large parts of their generation were trashing blues-based rock and searching for alternatives, Georgia's Widespread Panic eagerly picked up where the Dead and a generation of other improv-driven musicians left off. But that sense was hardly reactionary; indeed, WP's musical utopianism seems to have gleaned as much from alt-rock as the Allmans, infusing this 2001 collection with a bracing sense of adventure. Their seventh album encompasses the stylistic diversity longtime fans have come to expect, with that diversity now underscored by the walloping hard-rock edge on "Give," "Imitation Leather Shoes," and "Action Man." With vocalist John Bell's expressive, character-rich voice evoking spirits as diverse as Steve Miller, James Hetfield, and Eddie Vedder, the band's tales of jaundiced romance and bleary-eyed life are ensconced in dreamy piano ballads ("This Part of Town"), neo-psych funk ("Thought Sausage"), and even rootsy Nashville-meets-Memphis novelty ("Big Wooly Mammoth"). Tellingly, WP infuse their cover of alt-rock pioneers Firehose's "Sometimes" with an infectious, Miller-esque pop groove that further highlights their sense of musical team play. --Jerry McCulley

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