Panic/Allmans Tour Comes To An End: A Guide to the Sit-Ins From Each Leg
The Widespread Panic/Allman Brothers Band co-bill tour came to an end on Saturday night in Houston, where the two acts each made sure to end on a high note. Panic kicked things off and welcomed ABB guitarist Warren Haynes to the stage for covers of Bill Withers’ Use Me and Neil Young’s Cortez The Killer. Panic hadn’t performed Cortez in nearly 500 shows and they also dusted off their cover of Warren Zevon’s Lawyers Guns & Money.
For their set, The Allmans welcomed WSP guitarist John Bell and percussionist Sunny Ortiz out for Guilded Splinters. Ortiz also came out later in the set for a Franklin’s Tower that also featured Jimmy Herring on guitar. Panic bassist Dave Schools lent his skills to a version of Dreams that Oteil Burbridge sat out for. Herring returned to play on one more Liz Reed before both bands assembled during the encore to end the tour with Southbound.
All told, the memorable tour contained 20 shows split between two legs. There were sit-ins aplenty and here’s a recap of who played on what…
Members of Widespread Panic:
John Bell – Guilded Splinters (8/21, 10/6, 10/17), And It Stoned Me (8/22, 9/2, 10/10), Highway 61 Revisited (8/26, 10/9, 10/16), Can’t Find My Way Home (8/29, 10/12), It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry (9/2, 10/14), Southbound (10/17)
Domingo Ortiz – Guilded Splinters (8/21, 10/6, 10/17), You Don’t Love Me (8/30), Franklin’s Tower (10/7, 10/17), Southbound (10/17)
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JoJo Hermann – Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (8/21), The Weight (8/21, 10/9), It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry (8/22, 9/2), You Don’t Love Me (8/22, 8/30), Southbound (8/22, 8/27, 10/12, 10/17), Who’s Been Talking (8/24), Smokestack Lightning (8/24), Highway 61 Revisited (8/26), Feelin’ Alright (9/1),
Jimmy Herring – Dreams (8/21), One Way Out (8/21, 10/3, 10/9), In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed (8/22, 8/27, 10/3, 10/12, 10/17), Southbound (8/22, 8/27, 9/2, 10/6, 10/12, 10/17), Who’s Been Talking (8/24), Smokestack Lightning (8/24), Franklin’s Tower (8/26, 10/7, 10/17), Mountain Jam (8/29 – w/Dazed and Confused, 10/3) Les Brers in A Minor (8/30), Stormy Monday (9/2, 10/3), Don’t Keep Me Wondering (10/3), Statesboro Blues (10/3), Anyday (10/3), Trouble No More (10/3),
Dave Schools – You Don’t Love Me (8/22), Dreams (8/29, 10/9, 10/17), Mountain Jam (8/29), Franklin’s Tower (10/7), Key to the Highway (10/9), Highway 61 Revisited (10/9), Southbound (10/17),
Todd Nance – Southbound (8/22, 10/6, 10/17), Franklin’s Tower (10/7),
Members of the Allman Brothers Band:
Derek Trucks – Bust It Big (8/22), Gimme (8/22), Chilly Water (8/22), Thin Air (8/27), Blackout Blues (8/27, 10/16), It Ain’t No Use (8/29), Blight (8/29), Surprise Valley (8/30, 10/13), Goin’ Out West (8/30), Ride Me High (9/1), Turn On Your Lovelight (9/1), Papa’s Home (9/1), Climb to Safety (9/1, 10/13), North (9/1), Bowlegged Woman (9/1), Mercy (9/2), Rock (9/2), You Should Be Glad (10/3), Maggot Brain (10/9), Time Is Free (10/9), Second Skin (10/16),
Warren Haynes – Surprise Valley (8/22, 8/30), Chilly Water (8/22, 8/29), Red Hot Mama (8/26), Chainsaw City (8/26), Protein Drink > Sewing Machine (8/27, 10/6), Smokestack Lightning (8/29), Goin’ Out West (8/30), Turn On Your Lovelight (9/1), North (9/1), Bowlegged Woman (9/1), Me and the Devil Blues (9/2), Last Dance (9/2), Henry Parsons Died (10/4), Mr. Soul (10/4), Second Skin (10/6), Slipping Into Darkness (10/10), Bust It Big (10/10), Ribs & Whiskey (10/12), Stop Breakin’ Down Blues (10/12), Use Me (10/17), Cortez The Killer (10/17),
Marc Quinones – Surprise Valley (8/22), Slipping Into Darkness (10/10),
Oteil Burbridge – Fishwater (8/27), Fixin’ To Die (8/30), Time Is Free (10/9),
Gregg Allman – Just Like A Woman (9/1, 10/10), Turn On Your Lovelight (9/1),
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:59 am
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October 19th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Great roundup, Scotty. And what a tour.
Just wanted to say a few quick words on the Nashville show, which I was lucky enough to attend: a fierce, fast and furious one, where the Allmans welcomed upwards of six or seven guests, including a percussionist or two (not Sunny or Todd from Panic) who didn’t get a shoutout. And how much fun to see Johnny Neel pounding the keys up there? As much firepower as there was in the ABB set 10/14 — and with Jack Pearson KILLING it in “Liz Reed” and Jimmy Hall adding roadhouse harp to “YDLM” — hearing Johnny with Panic was even better. That night’s version of “Big Woolly Mammoth” was the show highlight, followed closely by the Audley Freed sit-in that buoyed “You Should Be Glad > It Ain’t No Use > Jam.” Was surprised Audley didn’t jam with the Brothers, too, but there were so many people all over the stage it’s just as well. Fun tour. One for the books.