Widespread Panic - 2016 Halloween Compilation [2CD] (2016)

Widespread Panic will celebrate Halloween this year with a three night stand at 1st Bank Center in Broomfield, Colorado on October 28, 29 and 30. The Georgia-based rockers typically use the holiday as an opportunity to incorporate new covers into their repertoire and in advance of this year’s run the band has made a collection of live covers from the past 10 years available to download.

The 25-track 2016 Halloween Compilation can be purchased and downloaded from LiveWidespreadPanic.com. It begins with a recording of the “Theme From The Andy Griffith Show (The Fishin’ Hole)” from last year’s show on Halloween in Asheville, North Carolina. Pink Floyd’s “Have A Cigar” and “Young Lust” from 2015 are also featured. The set also features 2014’s take on Funkadelic’s “Hit It And Quit It,” Neil Young’s “Heart Of Gold” and Cheech & Chong’s “Earache My Eye.”

Other covers include Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades,” The Door’s “People Are Strange,” The Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar,” The Beatles’ “I Want You (She’s So Heavy), Black Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf” and a number of others dating back to 2006.