Beanland is a roots rockRoots Rock is a sometimes vaguely-defined genre of Americana music that draws on early rock and roll, blues, country music, country rock, and/or other related forms. *List of Roots rock bands and musiciansroots rock jam bandJam band is a term that refers to bands, albums, festivals, etc., that relate directly or indirectly to the jam band culture. The concerts of such bands may feature extended musical improvisation over rhythmic grooves and chord patterns. Jam bands may exist within a variety of genres, including rock, psychedelic ...jam band, based in Oxford, MississippiOxford is the county seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. The population is currently about 19,000, due to a recent annexation of five square miles of Lafayette County in all directions. Oxford is the home of the University of Mississippi, founded in 1848, also known as "Ole Miss". Oxford has been named by USA Today as one of the top 6 college towns in the nation and is included in The Best 100 Small Towns in America. Lafayette County consistently leads the ...Oxford, Mississippi, which performed and recorded primarily from 1986 to 1993. Beanland is a legend and favorite among alumni of Ole MissThe University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1848, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford and three branch campuses located in Booneville, Tupelo, and Southaven. UM maintains a field station in Bay Springs as well as the University of Mississippi Medical ...Ole Miss (The University of Mississippi). The bands influences include The Grateful DeadGrateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco, California. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, country, jazz, psychedelia, space music"purveyors of freely improvised space music," -- Blender Magazine, May 2003""Dark Star," both in its title and in its structure (designed ...The Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers BandThe Allman Brothers Band is a band from Macon, Georgia, labeled by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as "the principal architects of Southern rock."Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee page for the Allman Brothers Band. Originally formed in 1969, two years later they were described by Rolling Stone's George Kimball as "the best damn rock and roll band this country has produced in ...The Allman Brothers Band, as well as old Mississippi DeltaThe Mississippi Delta is the distinct northwest section of the state of Mississippi that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers. Technically not a delta but part of an alluvial plain, it has been said that The Delta "begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel (in Memphis) and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg" (various writers have been attributed with composing this memorable line, but most often David Cohn is credited with the saying). This region, ...Mississippi Delta Blues musicBlues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that most often follows a twelve-bar structure. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, praise songs, field hollers, rhymed English and Scots-Irish narrative ballads, ...Blues music.

Key tunes by Beanland consist of "sellin' The Rain" and "Doreatha", both release and circulated around college radio stationsRadio broadcasting is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast common programming, either in syndication ...radio stations throughout the Southeastern United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states, one federal district, and fourteen territories. The country is situated almost entirely in the western hemisphere: its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie in central North America between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico ...United States. The band has a moderate cult: This article does not discuss "cult" in its original sense of "religious practice;" for that usage see Cult (religious practice). See Cult (other uses) for more meanings of the term "cult." Cult inexactly refers to a cohesive social group devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture considers ...cult following.

Although they have essentially disbanded, Beanland has played several reunion shows, most recently in 2004 at the Double Decker Arts Festival in Oxford. Original Beanland members John "Jojo" Hermann and George McConnell have both played with Widespread PanicWidespread Panic is a southern 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. Michael Houser and George McConnell ...Widespread Panic. However, McConnell left Widespread Panic in August of 2006. 2004 saw the release of Beanland: Rising From the Riverbed, a film by Oxford based Cloudscapes Productions. The film tells the story of Beanland through classic footage and interviews with band members and such musical luminaries as producer Jim Dickinson and Rev. Jeff Mosier.