Night of Joy is the fourth live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 released by the Athens, GA based band Widespread Panic

Widespread Panic

Widespread Panic is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia. The current lineup includes guitarist/singer John Bell, bassist Dave Schools, drummer Todd Nance, percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz, keyboardist John "JoJo" Hermann, and guitarist Jimmy Herring...

. The album was recorded during a show in 2003 at the House of Blues

House of Blues

House of Blues is a chain of 13 live music concert halls and restaurants in major markets throughout the United States. House of Blues first location was in Cambridge's Harvard Square. It was opened in 1992 by Isaac Tigrett, co-founder of Hard Rock Cafe, and Dan Aykroyd, star of The Blues Brothers...

 in South Carolina. It was released on March 23, 2004 and features the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

The album reached a peak position of #157 on both the Billboard 200

Billboard 200

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 chart and the Top Internet Albums chart.

Track listing

1. "Thought Sausage" (Widespread Panic) – 5:31
2. "Thin Air" (Widespread Panic) – 7:50
3. "Use Me" (Withers) – 8:27
4. "Bayou Lena" (Widespread Panic) – 6:41
5. "Old Neighborhood" (Widespread Panic) – 6:20
6. "Bust It Big" (Widespread Panic) – 9:05
7. "Arleen" (Riley) – 10:22
8. "I Wish" (Wonder
   Stevie Wonder
   Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
   
   ) – 6:56
9. "Rebirtha" (Widespread Panic) – 17:15

Personnel

Widespread Panic

• John Bell - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocals
• John Hermann - keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , vocals
• George McConnell - guitar, vocals
• Todd Nance - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , vocals
• Domingo S. Ortiz - percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  
• Dave Schools - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  

Guest Performers

• Revert Andrews - trombone
• Kevin Bruce Harris - sax (tenor)
• Terence Higgins - percussion, drums
• Roger Lewis - sax (baritone, soprano)
• Julius McKee - sousaphone
• Efrem Towns - trumpet, flugelhorn

Production

• John Keane
  John Keane (record producer)
  John Keane is an American record producer based in Athens, Georgia, who has worked extensively with R.E.M., Indigo Girls and Widespread Panic. He owns and operates John Keane Studios in Athens, which opened in 1981....
  
  - producer, mixing
• Billy Field - engineer
• Ken Love - mastering
• Brad Blettenberg - assistant
• Flournoy Holmes - artwork, design, photography
• Ellie MacKnight - package coordinator
• Oade Brothers - assistant
• Chris Rabold - assistant
• Tom L. Smith - photography

External links

• Widespread Panic website
• Everyday Companion
• [ All Music entry]