Biography
Widespread Panic is a southern rock band from
Athens, Georgia. Founded in
1985 as a weekly
jam session at the Uptown Lounge in Athens, the band
tours widely, drawing particularly large audiences near its origins in the
southeastern United States. The founding members of the group are
guitarist/
singer
John Bell, guitarist
Michael Houser and
bassist
Dave Schools. Drummer
Todd Nance would soon join, and
percusionist
Sonny Ortiz and
keyboardist
John Hermann joined in the early
1990s. The group is often...
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