Widespread Panic – 2018 In Review

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Panic en la Playa

 

01/26/18 Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Riviera Maya, MX

1: Protein Drink > Jam > Climb To Safety, Henry Parsons Died, Better Off > Weak Brain, Narrow Mind, All Time Low > Jam > Shut Up And Drive > Up All Night > Cease Fire > Sewing Machine
2: Airplane > Pusherman > Help Me Somebody > Goin’ Out West > Jam > Solid Rock

[Show stopped early due to rain; Panic en la Playa Siete; ‘Help Me Somebody’ rap during ‘Goin’ Out West’]

01/27/18 Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Riviera Maya, MX

1: And It Stoned Me, Disco, Goodpeople, Worry, 1 x 1, Second Skin, Machine > Barstools and Dreamers
2: A of D > Bear’s Gone Fishin’ > Tall Boy > A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, Dyin’ Man > Sell Sell > Drums > Maggot Brain* > Ride Me High* > Bust It Big*
E: Genesis > Love Tractor

* with Eric Krasno on guitar, Ivan Neville on keyboards

[Panic en la Playa Siete; Soundcheck: ‘Pilgrims’]

01/28/18 Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Riviera Maya, MX

1: Conrad, Sharon, Holden Oversoul, You Got Yours, Time Zones, Happy > Aunt Avis > Rebirtha, Blackout Blues
2: Mr. Soul, One Kind Favor > Imitation Leather Shoes, Cotton Was King, Hatfield, It Ain’t No Use*, Arleen**, Chainsaw City, Life During Wartime
E: Honky Red, North

* with George Porter Jr. on bass/vocals
** with George Porter Jr. on bass

[‘The Other One’ jam after ‘One Kind Favor’]

01/29/18 Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Riviera Maya, MX

1: Werewolves of London, One Arm Steve, Pleas > Jam > Christmas Katie > Junior, Contentment Blues, Thought Sausage, Travelin’ Light
2: Swamp, Fishwater > Surprise Valley > Rock, Saint Ex, Pilgrims, Sundown Betty, Pigeons, Nobody’s Fault But Mine* > Mountain Jam**
E: Tail Dragger, High Time We Went

* with Marcus King on guitar/vocals
** with Marcus King on guitar

[First ‘Sundown Betty’; ‘Pilgrims’ with inverted intro]

Birmingham

 

02/16/18 BJCC Arena, Birmingham, AL

1: Pleas > Makes Sense To Me, Little Kin, Action Man, Street Dogs For Breakfast > Red Beans, All Time Low > Jam > Space Wrangler > Bowlegged Woman
2: Greta > Jam > Walk On, Tortured Artist > Flicker > Driving Song > I’m Not Alone > Jam > Driving Song > Tie Your Shoes > Jam > Drums > Diner > Sleeping Man, No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
E: Gimme > Red Hot Mama > Chilly Water

[‘In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed’ jam before ‘Walk On’]

02/17/18 BJCC Arena, Birmingham, AL

1: Ribs And Whiskey, Send Your Mind, Proving Ground, Walkin’ (For Your Love), Holden Oversoul > Jam > The Last Straw, B of D, Lawyers, Guns, And Money, Ain’t Life Grand
2: Let’s Get The Show On The Road, Blackout Blues, Who Do You Belong To? > Jam > Mercy > Weight Of The World, Big Wooly Mammoth > Papa’s Home > Drums > Stop-Go, Blight, Climb To Safety
E: Trouble, Honey Bee, Rockin’ In The Free World

Washington DC

 

03/15/18 The Theatre At MGM National Harbor, Oxon Hill, MD

1: Wondering, Hope In A Hopeless World, Steven’s Cat, Rebirtha > Jam > You Should Be Glad, Travelin’ Man > The Take Out > The Shape I’m In > Ophelia > Porch Song
2: Old Neighborhood > Visiting Day > Can’t Get High, Airplane > Jaded Tourist > North > Drums > Come Together > Surprise Valley
E: Radio Child, For What It’s Worth

[Last ‘Come Together’ – 11/04/05, 819 shows; Last ‘Travelin’ Man’ – 06/25/14, 221 shows]

03/16/18 The Theatre At MGM National Harbor, Oxon Hill, MD

1: Chainsaw City, Travelin’ Light, Goodpeople, Gradle, Big Wooly Mammoth > Greta > Sleepy Monkey, St. Louis, Driving Song > Disco > Driving Song
2: Slippin’ Into Darkness*, Machine > Barstools and Dreamers, This Part Of Town, Heroes, Love In Vain, Goin’ Out West > Drums > Cease Fire, Me And The Devil Blues, Pigeons
E: Henry Parsons Died, Postcard

* with Steve Lopez on percussion

[Only ‘Love In Vain’]

03/17/18 The Theatre At MGM National Harbor, Oxon Hill, MD

1: Tall Boy, Up All Night, Little Lilly, You Got Yours, Blue Indian, Honky Red, Thought Sausage, Bust It Big, Protein Drink > Sewing Machine
2: Rock, Sell Sell, One Kind Favor > Pilgrims, Ride Me High > Blackout Blues, Sundown Betty > Drums > Fishwater > Red Hot Mama > Fishwater
E: Saint Ex, Toura Loura Loura, Love Tractor

[Only ‘Toura Loura Loura’]

Wanee Music Festival

 

04/20/18 Wanee Music Festival, Live Oak, FL

0: Tail Dragger, Chilly Water, One Arm Steve, Holden Oversoul, Who Do You Belong To?, Shut Up And Drive, 1 x 1, Cotton Was King, Driving Song > Disco > Porch Song > Drums > Jam > Greta > Space Wrangler > Driving Song > Blight, North, Action Man
E: Smokestack Lightning*, Climb To Safety

* with Luther Dickinson on guitar

04/21/18 Wanee Music Festival, Live Oak, FL

0: Pigeons, Goodpeople, Love Tractor, I’m Not Alone, Big Wooly Mammoth, Radio Child, Rebirtha > Blackout Blues > Second Skin*, Pilgrims, Bowlegged Woman**, One Kind Favor**, Fishwater***, Lake Of Fire*, Ain’t Life Grand*
E: Expiration Day, Papa’s Home, Mr. Soul

* with Jason Crosby on violin
** with Marcus King on guitar
*** with Jason Crosby on keyboards

Trondossa Music Festival

 

05/05/18 Trondossa Music Festival, North Charleston, SC

1: Ribs And Whiskey, Wondering, No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature, Proving Ground > Impossible > Proving Ground, Bust It Big, Jack, All Time Low
2: Bear’s Gone Fishin’ > Jam > Tie Your Shoes > Rock, Pickin’ Up The Pieces, Surprise Valley > Red Hot Mama > Surprise Valley > Drums > Honey Bee, Imitation Leather Shoes

[Entire show with Edie Jackson, sign language interpreter; Everyone remained on-stage during ‘Drums’; Fireworks display during ‘Imitation Leather Shoes’; ‘Tall Boy’ rap during ‘Red Hot Mama’]

05/06/18 Trondossa Music Festival, North Charleston, SC

1: Porch Song, Sundown Betty, Henry Parsons Died, Machine > Barstools and Dreamers, City of Dreams, Ride Me High* > Come Together**
2: Pleas > Chilly Water, Genesis, Walkin’ (For Your Love), Tall Boy, Arleen > Jam > Drums > Airplane > Trondossa > Conrad

* with Sturgill Simpson on guitar
** with Sturgill Simpson on guitar/vocals

[Only ‘Trondossa’; Entire show with Edie Jackson, sign language interpreter; Slow ‘Porch Song’; ‘Sundown Betty’ with inverted intro; Fireworks display during ‘Conrad’]

Red Rocks

 

06/22/18 Red Rocks, Morrison, CO

1: Solid Rock, One Arm Steve > Glory, Contentment Blues, Send Your Mind, Sleeping Man > Jam > Driving Song > Space Wrangler > Driving Song, Travelin’ Light
2: Protein Drink > Sewing Machine, 1 x 1, Happy > B of D > Love Tractor > Drums > I Walk On Guilded Splinters > Papa Legba, Stop Breakin’ Down Blues
E: You Got Yours, Climb To Safety

[‘Give Me Back My Wig’ rap by JB during ‘Stop Breakin’ Down Blues’]

06/23/18 Red Rocks, Morrison, CO

1: Rebirtha > Blackout Blues, Little Kin > Radio Child, C. Brown, Tickle the Truth, Stop-Go > Weight Of The World, Tail Dragger
2: North, Sharon, Sell Sell, Goodpeople, Second Skin
3: Greta > Cease Fire > Blue Indian, Holden Oversoul, Puppy Sleeps, Expiration Day, Flat Foot Flewzy
E: Porch Song

[Wind delay after ‘Second Skin’ to remove the LED screen behind the band; ‘Fire on the Mountain’ tease during ‘Stop-Go’; Last ‘Puppy Sleeps’ – 04/22/02, 1071 shows]

06/24/18 Red Rocks, Morrison, CO

1: Let’s Get The Show On The Road, Bear’s Gone Fishin’ > Weak Brain, Narrow Mind, Cotton Was King, Old Neighborhood, Bust It Big, Diner > The Take Out, Pigeons
2: Let’s Get Down To Business, Chainsaw City, Visiting Day, Up All Night > Drums > Surprise Valley > Goin’ Out West > Ain’t No Sunshine > Four Cornered Room, Ain’t Life Grand
E: You Should Be Glad, You Wreck Me

[‘Highway To Heaven’ and ‘In The Garden’ raps by JB during ‘Diner’]

Mud Island

 

06/29/18 Mud Island Amphitheater, Memphis, TN

1: Henry Parsons Died > Junior, It Ain’t No Use > Heaven, Airplane > A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, Steven’s Cat, Imitation Leather Shoes > Mr. Soul
2: Jam* > Dyin’ Man*, Bowlegged Woman*, Thought Sausage, Worry, Mercy > Jam > Vampire Blues > Proving Ground > Drums > Saint Ex > Proving Ground > Tall Boy
E: Drinking Muddy Water, Vacation

* with Colin Butler on turntables

[Pre-show and setbreak music by Colin Butler on turntables]

06/30/18 Mud Island Amphitheater, Memphis, TN

1: Disco, Wondering, Papa Johnny Road, Walkin’ (For Your Love), Papa’s Home, Shut Up And Drive > Hatfield, Sundown Betty, Can’t Get High, Action Man
2: Hope In A Hopeless World, Pilgrims, Ride Me High > Tie Your Shoes > Drums > Fishwater > Big Wooly Mammoth* > Fishwater* > Red Hot Mama > Chilly Water
E: Honky Red, Last Dance

* with Cody Dickinson on washboard

[Pre-show and setbreak music by Colin Butler on turntables; ‘Tequila’ tease during ‘Big Wooly Mammoth’

Lockn’ Festival

 

08/24/18 Lockn’ Music Festival, Arrington, VA

0: Tall Boy, Sell Sell > Love Tractor > You Got Yours, North, Rebirtha > None of Us Are Free, All Time Low, Driving Song > Greta > Driving Song > Drums > Rock Steady*, Up All Night**, Four Years of Chances***, Honey Bee**, Piece of My Heart**

* with Elizabeth Lea on trombone, Ephraim Owens on trumpet, Kebbi Williams on saxophone, Margo Price on vocals/tambourine
** with Margo Price on vocals/tambourine
*** with Margo Price on vocals/guitar

[Only ‘Four Years of Chances’, Only ‘Piece of My Heart’, Only ‘Rock Steady’; Last ‘None of Us Are Free’ – 03/07/14, 266 shows]

Nashville

 

08/31/18 Ascend Amphitheater, Nashville, TN

1: Pleas > One Arm Steve, Better Off, Holden Oversoul > Christmas Katie > Radio Child, Send Your Mind, Happy > Space Wrangler
2: Flicker > Jam > Bear’s Gone Fishin’ > I’m Not Alone, Diner > Ribs And Whiskey, 1 x 1 > Drums > Cease Fire > Surprise Valley > Blue Indian > Surprise Valley
E: Pigeons

09/01/18 Ascend Amphitheater, Nashville, TN

1: The Take Out > Porch Song, Ain’t Life Grand, Old Neighborhood, Visiting Day, Makes Sense To Me, Jack, Little Lilly > Climb To Safety
2: Drums > Barstools and Dreamers, Machine > Travelin’ Light, Cotton Was King, Bust It Big, Second Skin > Jam > Pilgrims > Impossible > Imitation Leather Shoes > Mr. Soul
E: City of Dreams, Protein Drink > Sewing Machine

[‘Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin’ rap during ‘Barstools and Dreamers’]

09/02/18 Ascend Amphitheater, Nashville, TN

1: Goodpeople, Henry Parsons Died, Aunt Avis, Rock, Dyin’ Man, Thought Sausage, Steven’s Cat, B of D > Conrad
2: Saint Ex, Airplane > Jaded Tourist > Blackout Blues > Goin’ Out West, St. Louis > Blight > Drums > Stop-Go > Chilly Water
E: Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys, Puppy Sleeps

St Augustine

 

09/14/18 St. Augustine Amphitheatre, St. Augustine, FL

1: Disco, Wondering, Glory, Action Man, Junior, C. Brown, Party At Your Mama’s House > Stop Breakin’ Down Blues, Fishwater
2: Don’t Wanna Lose You > Chainsaw City* > Genesis, Up All Night > Hatfield > You Got Yours, Ride Me High > Tie Your Shoes > Contentment Blues > You Wreck Me
E: Expiration Day, Love Tractor

* with Steve Lopez on percussion

[Last ‘Don’t Wanna Lose You’ – 03/17/14, 264 shows]

09/15/18 St. Augustine Amphitheatre, St. Augustine, FL

1: Time Zones > Who Do You Belong To?, Tall Boy > Jam, Walkin’ (For Your Love), Pigeons, Me And The Devil Blues, Sundown Betty > Slippin’ Into Darkness*, All Time Low
2: Heaven, Ain’t Life Grand, Holden Oversoul, Life During Wartime, Papa’s Home > Drums > Papa’s Home > Blue Indian, Big Wooly Mammoth > North
E: Honky Red, Climb To Safety

* with Steve Lopez on percussion

09/16/18 St. Augustine Amphitheatre, St. Augustine, FL

1: Little Kin > Sell Sell, Dirty Side Down, Sleeping Man, You Should Be Glad, Rebirtha, Pilgrims, Space Wrangler
2: Lawyers, Guns, And Money, The Last Straw, Bear’s Gone Fishin’, Can’t Find My Way Home, Greta > Surprise Valley > Drums > Proving Ground > Do What You Like > Proving Ground > Surprise Valley, Last Dance
E1: Nobody’s Loss, No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
E2: Porch Song

[Everyone remained on-stage during ‘Drums’ and JB continued playing; ‘Porch Song’ without JoJo; Last ‘Do What You Like’ – 09/13/14, 228 shows]

Milwaukee

 

10/19/18 The Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI

1: Saint Ex, Henry Parsons Died, One Arm Steve, Diner > Little Lilly, Happy, Driving Song > Shut Up And Drive > Blackout Blues
2: Radio Child, Thought Sausage, Red Hot Mama > Ride Me High > Cease Fire > Jamais Vu > Driving Song > Breathing Slow, Airplane > Ophelia, Chainsaw City, Action Man
E: Quarter Tank Of Gasoline, Imitation Leather Shoes

10/20/18 The Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI

1: Disco, Bowlegged Woman, I’m Not Alone, Blight, 1 x 1, Can’t Get High, Tail Dragger > Rock
2: Impossible > Machine > Barstools and Dreamers, Party At Your Mama’s House > Ribs And Whiskey, Makes Sense To Me > Sleeping Man, Fishwater > Drums > I Walk On Guilded Splinters > Fishwater
E: Honky Red, Ain’t Life Grand

10/21/18 The Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI

1: Conrad, Coconut, Stop-Go > Aunt Avis > Pusherman, Rebirtha > Jam > Wondering, Dyin’ Man, Pigeons
2: Steven’s Cat, Arleen > Travelin’ Light, Dirty Business, Surprise Valley > All Along The Watchtower > Jack > Drums > Jam > Protein Drink > Sewing Machine > Surprise Valley > Climb To Safety
E: Dream Song, Porch Song

[‘Jam’ after ‘Drums’ without JB and JoJo]

Las Vegas

 

10/26/18 Park Theater, Las Vegas, NV

1: The Take Out > Goin’ Out West, Greta > Weak Brain, Narrow Mind, Tickle the Truth, B of D, Sell Sell, Space Wrangler, Dear Mr. Fantasy
2: Bust It Big > Life During Wartime > Bust It Big, Hatfield, Junior, Papa’s Home > Drums > Papa’s Home > Tie Your Shoes, Gimme > Pleas > Love Tractor
E: This Part Of Town, You Wreck Me

[‘Within You Without You’ tease before ‘Pleas’]

10/27/18 Park Theater, Las Vegas, NV

1: Tall Boy, Mr. Soul, Walkin’ (For Your Love), Who Do You Belong To?, Trouble, Goodpeople > Me And The Devil Blues, Holden Oversoul > Cream Puff War > Holden Oversoul
2: Postcard, Little Kin, Big Wooly Mammoth > You Got Yours, Second Skin > Pilgrims, All Time Low, Bear’s Gone Fishin’ > Maggot Brain > Chilly Water*
E: Visiting Day, Fairies Wear Boots

* with Carrot Top on percussion

[Entire show with Edie Jackson, sign language interpreter]

10/28/18 Park Theater, Las Vegas, NV

1: Godzilla, One Arm Steve, Imitation Leather Shoes, Better Off, Time Zones > Diner > Blackout Blues, Jumpin’ Jack Flash
2: Aqualung, Pigeons > Here Comes The Judge > Pigeons, Sundown Betty, Four Cornered Room > Slippin’ Into Darkness* > Henry Parsons Died, Mercy > Jam > (Don’t Fear) The Reaper** > North
E: Tiptoe Through The Tulips, Drift Away, Ain’t Life Grand

* with Steve Lopez on percussion
** with Ben Draper on cowbell

[Only ‘(Don’t Fear) The Reaper’, Only ‘Aqualung’, Only ‘Drift Away’, Only ‘Here Comes The Judge’, Only ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’, Only ‘Tiptoe Through The Tulips’; Entire show with Edie Jackson, sign language interpreter; GoGo Dancers onstage for ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’, ‘Pigeons’ > ‘Here Comes The Judge’ > ‘Pigeons’, ‘Slippin’ Into Darkness’ > ‘Henry Parsons Died’, and ‘(Don’t Fear) The Reaper’ through the end of the show; ‘In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed’ tease by Jimmy during ‘Four Cornered Room’; Last ‘Godzilla’ – 10/31/11, 376 shows]

NYE

12/29/18 Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA

1: Vacation, Send Your Mind, Up All Night, Walk On, Walkin’ (For Your Love), Fishwater > Bear’s Gone Fishin’ > Papa’s Home > Fishwater
2: Disco, Lawyers, Guns, And Money, Driving Song > Ride Me High > Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys > Airplane > Drums > Cease Fire > Jam > Driving Song > Contentment Blues
E: Chainsaw City > Mr. Soul

[First known ‘Vacation’ opener; ‘Worry’ teases before ‘Drums’; ‘Run Like Hell’ jam after ‘Cease Fire’]

12/30/18 Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA

1: Porch Song > Chunk Of Coal, Christmas Katie > Action Man > Jam > Radio Child, Gradle, Cotton Was King, Big Wooly Mammoth > Love Tractor
2: Hatfield, Surprise Valley > Tie Your Shoes > Blue Indian, Rebirtha > Jam > Ribs And Whiskey, Sleeping Man, Climb To Safety, Tall Boy
E: Pickin’ Up The Pieces > Proving Ground > Porch Song

[Slow ‘Porch Song’; ‘Ball of Confusion’ jam out of ‘Rebirtha’]

12/31/18 Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA

1: For What It’s Worth, Ain’t Life Grand, Genesis, Blight, May Your Glass Be Filled, Space Wrangler
2: Thought Sausage, Travelin’ Light, Pleas > Goodpeople, Honky Red, I’m Not Alone, Saint Ex, Holden Oversoul
3: The Waker > Arleen, Pigeons, Greta, I’m So Glad*, Little Lilly, Pilgrims, Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress > Chilly Water
E: End Of The Show, Protein Drink > Bastards In Bubbles > Sewing Machine

* with Kevin Scott on vocals/shaker, Nick Johnson on vocals/shaker

[Only ‘Bastards In Bubbles’; Set 1 JB seated; Last ‘Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress’ – 10/29/00, 1209 shows; Last ‘The Waker’ – 06/28/02, 1082 shows]