Song Review: Widespread Panic - “C. Brown” (Live, June 25, 2023)

Looking at Widespread Panic in 2023, it’s obvious many years have gone by since the band’s formation. But listen to WSP ’23, and it’s almost as if time has stood still.

The craggy - and different - faces, grey hair and bald heads belie this, of course. But despite Father Time’s physical toll, that fucker hasn’t yet managed to mess with Panic’s musicianship and sound.

And so it was that the version of “C. Brown” the Panics played June 25 at Red Rocks sounded like in came from the very same band that’s been playing the song for nearly four decades now.

But the band - despite the same name - is different. Some of the players have changed and those who remain have gotten older. Yet Widespread Panic - from a strictly musical standpoint - continue to defy space and time and make music very similar to that they dreamed up when they were pups.

Good then. Good now.

Grade card: Widespread Panic - “C. Brown” (Live - 6/25/23) - B

12/26/23

hug! that! captain!

Prompt 235

“Mother, I have made a friend.” 

Now don’t get him wrong, Danny was delighted at the idea of Jordan making a friend, he really was. But the last three attempts had been borderline kidnappings, so he wasn’t entirely sure if he should be. Thankfully it doesn’t seem he’s kidnapped this one. Hopefully. 

Not that he wouldn’t be surprised if Dan managed to kidnap a tiny kryptonian, but the kid- Jon apparently- seemed happy enough to be there. Apparently his grandparents lived in the midwest too, and was happy enough to have someone to talk about it. 

Though um, maybe Danny should have checked to see if his parents knew where he’d gone, because he was not expecting a harried-looking superman to suddenly appear at his window. 

People have been obsessing over jimmy not dying first, which fair, but lizzies death is so tragic on so many layers. The way jimmy and joel are responsible for her final death, jimmy killing her directly causing her spiral into villainy, and joel being an omen to her deaths, giving her the mission that led to her going to the end and dying. The setting, where she tried to get everyone to join her in before the sleepover, how she says no one will hear or notice scotts death, only for the same to happen to her. How this season lizzie has been defined by her failing, failing her tasks, failing to get allies, failing to be remembered. How she was nust starting to succeed, getting the revenge she wanted only for her to fall. Falling and failing the final time, being forgotten, overshadowed by the curse being broken, for her killer living in exchange for her dying.

DAY and MORK in EPISODE 6.

hi guys i had a dream that i had a book club with the girls of the secret life smp and we wouldn't let jimmy in because we didn't think he could read

so i made this tier list based on whether i would invite members of the slsmp to my book club :D

(( + the story we read first is the tale of the red winter 🙏 [i miss ren SO MUCH] ))

part one. ♡ part two , part three.

the worlds worst (best) polycule

im not saying joel is a harem anime protagonist but also.... i'm not saying he's not lol. i mean obv we have lizzie, but also his work wives jimmy (the og work wife), etho, sausage, oli, and now our newest addition iskall.

the jeremy agenda is going strong lol, he's taking over the world

Song Review: Widespread Panic - “Travelin’ Light” (Live, June 23, 2023)

Though it’s been in the repertoire since the band began more than 35 years ago, “Travelin’ Light” is not a song that Widespread Panic has tired of playing.

The evidence is there in a powerful rendition of the J.J. Cale composition culled from Panic’s June 23 livestream from Red Rocks and released as a standalone. The band puts everything in to the track, with John Bell singing with the same fire he possessed in 1988 and Dave Schools continuing to find new ways to make the bass guitar more than just a rhythm instrument.

The rest of the Panics weren’t yet on board when the original group formed. But that doesn’t mean they haven’t played “Travelin’ Light” something like a gazillion times themselves. Still, one would never know it by the exuberance that goes in to nearly every reading of the heavy number.

Grade card: Widespread Panic - “Travelin’ Light” (Live - 6/23/23) - B+

11/14/23

I totally don't care that this trio didn't happen A GIRL CAN DREAM

Do you want me to take your dirty clothes? I'm doing my laundry and… Oh, wow. Look at you all dressed up.

LAST TWILIGHT | EP5

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Jimmy broke the curse fair and square, but he’s still the canary. Lizzie died in the End, alone. Not to another player, not to the effects of the game itself, she just fell. A tragedy in its own right, it took minutes for the others to even notice she was gone. The game barely acknowledged her passing, as it was so beyond its reach. She died first, yes, but the canary’s call means nothing to those beyond the coal mine.

DAY and MORK in EPISODE 11.

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