Pro-Shot: Widespread Panic Debuts ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ Cover

By Scott Bernstein Jan 15, 2016 • 9:51 am PST

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On New Year’s Eve, Georgia rockers Widespread Panic ended 2015 and rang in 2016 with a celebratory three-set show at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. The band was joined by the Megablasters horn section at various points of the evening and debuted a handful of covers. Today, Panic has shared professionally-shot video of one of those covers.

Towards the middle of the third set on New Year’s Eve Widespread Panic unveiled a cover of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” aided by the Megablasters. The group’s take on the Dylan’s classic is unlike any other we’ve heard thanks to the hard-nosed funk edge Panic adds to the tune as well as the addition of the horns. Watch how it went down:

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Here’s two more cover debuts from NYE – “Heroes” by David Bowie and “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen:

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