Live in the Classic City is the third live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 released by the Athens, GA based band Widespread Panic

Widespread Panic

Widespread Panic is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia. The current lineup includes guitarist/singer John Bell, bassist Dave Schools, drummer Todd Nance, percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz, keyboardist John "JoJo" Hermann, and guitarist Jimmy Herring...

. The album was recorded over an April 2000 three-night run in their hometown of Athens. It was released in June 2002 and features a mix of originals and cover songs, studded with guest performances from other star performers, including Derek Trucks

Derek Trucks

Derek Trucks is a Grammy Award-winning, American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He founded The Derek Trucks Band and worked as a session musician when he was still in his early teens. Throughout those teenage years, he toured with The Allman Brothers Band primarily as a slide...

, Bruce Hampton

Bruce Hampton

Bruce Hampton is a surrealist American musician. In the late 1960s he was a founding member of Atlanta, Georgia's avant-garde Hampton Grease Band...

, and former R.E.M.

R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...

 drummer Bill Berry

Bill Berry

William "Bill" Thomas Berry is a retired American musician, multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band R.E.M. In addition to his drumming duties, Berry played many other instruments including guitar, bass guitar, and piano, both for songwriting and on R.E.M....

.

The collection revealed the full range of musical styles heard at a Widespread Panic show, from tight hook-laden songs to extended improvisational jams, with seven tracks breaking the ten-minute mark.

The album reached a peak position of #99 on both the Billboard 200

Billboard 200

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 chart and the Top Internet Albums chart.

This album is one of 10 "live jam releases of this century" according to the August issue of Guitar One magazine.

Disc one

1. "Action Man" (Widespread Panic) – 4:34
2. "Chilly Water" (Widespread Panic) – 4:02
3. "Pleas > Chilly Water" (Widespread Panic) – 12:05
4. "C Brown" (Widespread Panic) – 5:41
5. "Lilly" (Widespread Panic) – 8:22
6. "I'm Not Alone" (Widespread Panic) – 6:09
7. "One Arm Steve" (Widespread Panic) – 3:33
8. "Flat Foot Flewzy" (Ferguson
   NRBQ
   NRBQ is an American rock band founded in 1967. It is known for its live performances, containing a high degree of spontaneity and levity, and blending rock, pop, jazz, blues and Tin Pan Alley styles. Its best known line-up is the 1974–1994 quartet of pianist Terry Adams, bassist Joey Spampinato,...
   
   ) – 5:43
9. "Surprise Valley" (Widespread Panic) – 7:08
10. "Blight" (Chesnutt
    Vic Chesnutt
    James Victor "Vic" Chesnutt was an American singer-songwriter from Athens, Georgia. His first album, Little, was released in 1990, but his breakthrough to commercial success didn't come until 1996 with the release of Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation, a tribute album of mainstream artists...
    
    ) – 6:58
11. "Walkin" (Widespread Panic) – 4:56

Disc two

1. "All Time Low" (Widespread Panic) – 5:00
2. "Mercy" (Widespread Panic) – 9:07
3. "Ride Me High" (Cale) – 16:21
4. "Drums" (Widespread Panic) – 16:35
5. "Time Is Free" (Hampton
   Bruce Hampton
   Bruce Hampton is a surrealist American musician. In the late 1960s he was a founding member of Atlanta, Georgia's avant-garde Hampton Grease Band...
   
   /Johnson) – 11:39
   1. "Climb to Safety" (Joseph
      Jerry Joseph
      Jerry Joseph is an American singer, songwriter, and guitar player. Joseph was born on April 19, 1961, and grew up in the San Diego area. He started playing guitar professionally at age 15 while living in New Zealand. After moving to Arcata, California, he formed the rock/reggae band Little Women in...
      
      ) – 8:16
   2. "Blue Indian" (Widespread Panic) – 5:39
   
   

   Disc three

   1. "Bear's Gone Fishin'" (Widespread Panic) – 6:21
   2. "Waker" (Widespread Panic) – 3:57
   3. "Dyin' Man" (Widespread Panic) – 4:29
   4. "Stop and Go" (Widespread Panic) – 10:32
   5. "Hatfield" (Widespread Panic) – 12:07
   6. "Tall Boy" (Widespread Panic) – 6:01
   7. "Red Hot Mama
      Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
      Standing on the Verge of Getting It On is the sixth studio album by Funkadelic, released on Westbound Records, released in 1974.On this album, the lyrics generally take a backseat to the music and the jamming. It is one of the most popular Funkadelic albums among fans, and considered an essential...
      
      " (Clinton
      George Clinton (funk musician)
      George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...
      
      ) – 5:48
   8. "Worry" (Widespread Panic) – 10:51
   9. "Let's Get the Show on the Road" (Stanley
      Michael Stanley
      Michael Stanley is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and disc jockey. Both as a solo artist and with the Michael Stanley Band, his brand of heartland rock was popular in Cleveland and around the American Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s.-Biography:Michael Stanley Gee graduated from Rocky...
      
      ) – 7:34
   
   

   Personnel

   Widespread Panic
   • John Bell - Guitar
     Guitar
     The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
     
     , vocals
     Singing
     Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
     
     
   • John Hermann - Keyboards
     Keyboard instrument
     A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
     
     , vocals
   • Michael Houser - Guitar, vocals
   • Todd Nance - Drums
     Drum kit
     A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
     
     , vocals
   • Domingo S. Ortiz - Percussion
     Percussion instrument
     A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
     
     
   • Dave Schools - Bass
     Bass guitar
     The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
     
     
   
   
   Guest Performers
   • Randall Bramblett - Saxophone
     Saxophone
     The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
     
     
   • Anne Richmond Boston - Vocals
   • Col. Bruce Hampton - Vocals
   • Pete Jackson - Percussion
   • John Keane
     John Keane (record producer)
     John Keane is an American record producer based in Athens, Georgia, who has worked extensively with R.E.M., Indigo Girls and Widespread Panic. He owns and operates John Keane Studios in Athens, which opened in 1981....
     
      - Banjo
     Banjo
     In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
     
     , pedal Steel guitar
     Steel guitar
     Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...
     
     
   • Chuck Leavell - Keyboards
   • Count Mbutu - Percussion
   • Yonrico Scott - Drums
   • Derek Trucks
     Derek Trucks
     Derek Trucks is a Grammy Award-winning, American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He founded The Derek Trucks Band and worked as a session musician when he was still in his early teens. Throughout those teenage years, he toured with The Allman Brothers Band primarily as a slide...
     
      - Guitar
   • Charlie Pruet - Percussion
   • Bill Berry
     Bill Berry
     William "Bill" Thomas Berry is a retired American musician, multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band R.E.M. In addition to his drumming duties, Berry played many other instruments including guitar, bass guitar, and piano, both for songwriting and on R.E.M....
     
      - Percussion
   • Dr. Arvin Scott - Percussion
   • Garrie Vereen - Percussion
   
   

   Production

   • John Keane
     John Keane (record producer)
     John Keane is an American record producer based in Athens, Georgia, who has worked extensively with R.E.M., Indigo Girls and Widespread Panic. He owns and operates John Keane Studios in Athens, which opened in 1981....
     
     - Producer, mixing
   • Billy Field - Engineer, mixing assistant
   • Ken Love - Mastering
   • Michael K. Sheehan - Photography
   
   

   External links

   • Widespread Panic website
   • Everyday Companion
   • [ All Music entry]
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