Tay Gutta, Minni Mitchell, Chadd Carter (Photos: Michael Donahue)

Unless I misunderstood her, one woman told me she’d been to 70 Widespread Panic shows. To which someone replied that he’d been to hundreds of them. Or something like that.

But however many shows they’d seen, “Spread Heads” got a chance to share their memories and see two more shows if they attended this year’s Mempho Music Festival, which was held October 9th, 10th, and 11th at Radians Amphitheater at the Memphis Botanic Garden. It could have been dubbed “Mempho Botanic Garden” for those three days. 

Anna Claire, Kelly, Parks Jr., and Parks O’Neill
Griffin Allen, Will Klepper, Jack Haddad

Conner Lopez, David Christopher, Owen Ricketts, Jake McDonald
Dylan Waldrip, Kevin Waldrip
Chris and Ellen Bolam
Jayden Carter, Carrie Carter
Chris, Cassie, Campbell, and Conrad Duncan

Michael Donahue began his career in 1975 at the now-defunct Memphis Press-Scimitar and moved to The Commercial Appeal in 1984, where he wrote about food and dining, music, and covered social events until...