Music Review

Don't Tell the Band (2012)

EW's GRADE
C+

Details Lead Performance: Widespread Panic; Genre: Rock

Along with Phish, this Athens, Ga., group are overlords of the jam-band cosmos. But where Phish use '70s classic rock as a point of departure for their compositional flights of fancy, Panic are mired in their own vinyl record collection. Their slavish devotion to James Gang-like white-boy funk-rock and Southern rock makes them sound like reactionary throwbacks rather than anyone's idea of the leading edge.

Originally posted Jun 29, 2001 Published in issue #602-603 Jun 29, 2001 Order article reprints
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