Widespread Panic Says Farewell For A While

About 15 months ago Widespread Panic keyboardist JoJo Hermann sent the group’s fanbase into a tizzy when he told a Vanderbilt University student paper reporter that after the band celebrated their 25th anniversary that they would “call it (quits) for a while.” Over the past year or so we’ve learned that the members of Panic plan to take about a year off and the anniversary celebration spilled into 2012 for Panic en la Playa and the all-acoustic Wood Tour. Last night at the Belly Up in Aspen, Colorado Widespread Panic concluded this era of their career with a barn burner in which they debuted three covers before saying farewell with the fitting Ain’t Life Grand.

Among the three covers debuted at the Wood Tour finale were Alan Price’s Sell Sell, Across The Universe by The Beatles and Somewhere In Time by Los Lobos. Panic also tipped their cap to previous covers busted out on the Wood Tour in The Ballad of John and Yoko and Warren Zevon’s Carmelita. Here’s the setlist via EverydayCompanion…

Set One: Send Your Mind, Tallboy, The Ballad of John and Yoko, True to My Nature, This Part of Town, Time Waits, Saint Ex, Sell Sell (Alan Price) > Who Do You Belong to?, Carmelita, Degenerate > Climb to Safety

Set Two: City of Dreams, Taildragger, Walkin’ (for your love), Papa’s Home > Vacation > Across the Universe > North, Contentment Blues > Jack, Postcard, Porch Song, Somewhere in Time (Los Lobos)

Encore: Blue Indian, Big Wooly Mammoth, Ain’t Life Grand

[First ‘Somewhere in Time’; First ‘Sell Sell’; First ‘Across the Universe’; Dave teased ‘Bird Song’ before ‘Jack’; JoJo teases Norwegian Wood during ‘Across the Universe’; ‘Down on the Farm’ tease before ‘Who Do You Belong to?’; Dave teases “Lovelight” and JB sings lyrics to ‘Swing Low Sweet Chariott’ during Tallboy; Broadcast Live on Sirius XM; Wood Tour]

Listen to Widespread Panic’s cover of Somewhere In Time…