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Product Description Earth to America! Widespread Panic has delivered a record that is going to expose their now legendary musical virtuosity and fluid performance chops to a whole new audience. Already a beloved unit who have sold millions of records and performed in front of millions of fans throughout their 20 year career, Earth to America welcomes produce/engineer Terry Manning (Led Zeppelin, Lenny Kravitz, ZZ Top, Joe Cocker, Al Green) into the fold and the results are astounding. The album is Widespread Panic's most powerful and focused release to date. From the opening juggernaut "Second Skin" (clocking in at over eleven minutes), through the boogie blues of "From the Cradle" and the Latin flavored "Time Zones" and culminating in the gentle "May Your Glass Be Filled", Earth to America is the most stellar release to date from Widespread Panic and is sure to make critics' year end top ten lists. Amazon.com Earth to America marks the 20th anniversary of Georgia's premier road warriors on record (they actually formed in the early-1980s). To reward fans for their support, there's a lot of bang for the buck on this 62-minute recording, including 11-minute space-funk jam "Second Skin," which gets the party started. Sadly, 2006 also marks the fourth anniversary of Michael "Panic" Houser's passing. That year, they added George McConnell on guitar, recorded 2003's Ball, and then took an uncharacteristic 15-month break. For their next effort, the sextet decided to shake up their usual production process by trading John Keane's Athens for Terry Manning's Bahamas-based Compass Point Studios (whose clients include Lenny Kravitz and ZZ Top). Manning also loaned the band Robert Johnson's Dobro for the Canned Heat-meets-Blues Traveler jaunt, "Ribs and Whiskey," another album highlight. Despite the loss of their co-founder, Widespread Panic's ninth studio effort isn't a downer—a thoughtful enterprise perhaps, but not a pessimistic one, as John Bell affirms in the penultimate track, "You should be glad." Fittingly, it’s followed by "May Your Glass Be Filled," an adaptation of a poem dedicated to Houser. --Kathleen C. Fennessy