Widespread Panic

In its '70s heyday southern rock was huge but hardly monolithic – under its pillars dwelt
the guitar swagger of the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Dixie Dregs' jazz fusion
and Sea Level's literate funk. Then, dealt fatal blows by the passing of crucial Allmans and
Skynyrd greats, it crumbled, and the region, led by Athens, Ga., and Chapel Hill, N.C.,
turned alternative. Now, with the H.O.R.D.E. concerts and a new appetite for ma... More >