With the long weekend coming up, it’s time to bust out some serious driving music. First off is the super-bad encore from Widespread Panic’s recent Saturday night in Chicago, Driving Song > Disco > Driving Song- ‘nuff said about that one.

Next is ABB’s cover of DTB’s cover of Susan Tedeschi’s cover of Aretha Franklin’s cover of The Band’s The Weight (or some such convoluted order like that), which is mighty bad in its own right. This one comes from the Camden show near the end of last summer. To cap off the week’s Stormy Monday is moe’s cover of Gimme Shelter with Nadine Lafond on lead vocals from the recent spring tour. Try to keep it somewhere near the speed limit.

As a bonus (and cuz I know my drive is close to five hours long), we also have the Dark Star > Weather Report Suite that closed Ratdog’s first set Saturday at the Beacon in April, easily the best night of the three. It was pretty amazing to see Mark Karan up there simultaneously underneath a ghoulish specter with glowing eyes and a sign reading “LIVE”, knowing that in the interval since the last Beacon shows he was diagnosed with stage four throat cancer, and now has a clean bill of health. Listen to him tear it up at the end of Let It Grow. As always, enjoy!