Postcard

“Postcard” is a Widespread Panic original.

When the band started we all lived in this little house in Athens, Georgia, called King Avenue, and we had a friend. His name was Tom Gunther. We commonly knew him as Bear. He left town... Some months later we got a postcard. It arrived at the band house. On the front side of it was a skier catching air way up in the mountains. On the back side was a post mark from Telluride, Colorado, and a very simple message on the postcard that said, ‘The air here is great. We're having an ass-kicking time. This town is nuts. My kind of place. I don't ever want to leave.’

Dave Schools, bassist · Colorado Music Hall of Fame induction speech

...we had a buddy that wrote us a postcard and that turned into a song about 7 years ago. He gets little 15 cent royalty checks.

John Bell, singer, guitarist · KGSR (Austin), 4/12/97

“Bear” is Tom Guenther, the same friend behind “Bear's Gone Fishin'.”