Panic Stricken

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Spirit moves in all things, but especially through great music. When music delivers you like that of legendary performance masters, and grandaddies of all live tour bands, the Grateful Dead, you stay delivered, for the rest of your life. 

Luckily for those of us who love this music, among us are a very small but highly talented few, who have become inspired to lovingly and meticulously perform the music in a way that honors the originators, and even more so sets out to reignite the magic of being there as it is fashioned out of the energy of an audience that loves it for how it moves them, how it connects them with others, and how it soothes if not heals them in a profound and singular way.

Credit goes to Dark Star Orchestra as one of first groups to take on that tradition without the slightest bit of hesitation or reservation about their calling, to pay tribute and to meticulously give their talents to performing music that so many of us love as much as they do. The result has been thousands of days with thousands of joyful gatherings across the land, as so many people who never got to hear the Grateful Dead in person now get to hear seriously talented and devoted artists bringing it back to life with every bit of the energy and purity as anyone could hope to get from any band playing any kind of music. 

Great music inevitably gets reproduced and replayed and recreated, and great musicians will inevitably have many progeny to carry on their work. Widespread Panic is among these greats and now their Musical tradition, their sound, the experience they forged and the spirit it brings have inspired their musical progeny in the austin-based band called Panic Stricken. And what an appropriate name because it is clear that this merry band of brothers, all talented musicians and highly skilled performers, are stricken with genuine love for everything that Widespread Panic brought to the world, including and especially the unbelievably brilliant, yet sadly cut short, musical genius and singular sound of Michael Houser, the latr Widespread Panic guitarist lovingly known to all as the 'lingering lead.'

Haters need not apply, Panic Stricken is a band for those who truly love the music and the spirit of Widespread Panic... and can never get enough of it. 

Panic Stricken, Austin, Texas, shares the music of Widespread Panic through faithful renditions and improvisational jams. Founded in 2014, the band quickly gained attention following a memorable fill-in performance at Empire Control Room and Garage in 2021. The group's performances continue to captivate audiences across the USA. Here's to many more years of celebrating Widespread Panic's music!