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Category: The Deep South

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, as well as northern Florida, eastern Tennessee, and parts of Arkansas

“Panic On!”

Can you believe it has been ten years since Mike Houser died? What began thirty years ago as a pair of guys who liked to play music together – John Bell and Mikey Houser – has grown exponentially into one of modern Southern culture’s musical mainstays. Sadly, Houser succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2002, but he’s still with us in a lot of ways— from his brilliant playing on Widespread Panic’s albums and in concerts to those stickers with his sitting-down-to-play silhouette that I see on the back of a car every… Read more “Panic On!”