Don't Tell the Band

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Don't Tell the Band
Don't Tell the Band cover
Studio album by Widespread Panic
Released June 19, 2001
Recorded 2000
Genre Rock
Length 55:59
Label Widespread Records, Sanctuary Records
Producer John Keane, Widespread Panic
Professional reviews
Widespread Panic chronology
Another Joyous Occasion
(2000)		 Don't Tell the Band
(2001)		 Live in the Classic City
(2002)

Don't Tell the Band, is the seventh studio album released by the Athens, GA based band Widespread Panic. It was released on June 19, 2001 in two forms, a single disc and a double disc release. It was the second release through the bands own label, Widespread Records, in conjunction with UK-based label Sanctuary Records. The album covered a wide variety of styles, from rock to Latin and grunge to soul, yet did not depart from this jam band's signature sound.

Randall Bramblett, a solo musician and member of Steve Winwood's touring band, joined Widespread Panic on the tenor saxophone for a cover of fIREHOSE's Sometimes. Big Wooly Mammoth, a long-time crowd favorite sung by John "JoJo" Herman, was finally brought to the studio for this release. Unknown at the time, this would be Michael Houser's last studio album with Widespread Panic, before his cancer-related death in 2002.

The album reached a peak position of #57 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album also reached a peak position of #12 on the Top Internet Albums chart.

Contents

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[edit] Disc one

  1. "Little Lilly" (Widespread Panic) – 5:07
  2. "Give" (Widespread Panic) – 3:29
  3. "Imitation Leather Shoes" (Widespread Panic) – 4:14
  4. "This Part of Town" (Widespread Panic) – 5:20
  5. "Sometimes" (Crawford) – 3:32
  6. "Thought Sausage" (Widespread Panic) – 4:39
  7. "Down" (Widespread Panic) – 3:52
  8. "Big Wooly Mammoth/Tears of a Woman" (Widespread Panic) – 6:45
  9. "Casa del Grillo" (Widespread Panic) – 6:30
  10. "Old Joe" (Widespread Panic) – 3:50
  11. "Action Man" (Widespread Panic) – 4:30
  12. "Don't Tell the Band" (Widespread Panic) – 4:11

[edit] Disc two (Live bonus disc)

  1. "Action Man" (Widespread Panic) – 4:25
  2. "Chilly Water, Pt. 1" (Widespread Panic) – 4:02
  3. "Pleas" (Widespread Panic) – 9:34
  4. "Chilly Water, Pt. 2" (Widespread Panic) – 2:29
  5. "C. Brown" (Widespread Panic) – 5:55

Songs from bonus disc comprise the first five tracks of the band's June 2002 release Live in the Classic City and are from the opening of the band's April 1, 2000 performance. "C. Brown" features John Keane on pedal steel. Track 1, "Action Man," appears in its original instrumental form unlike the album version, which contains lyrics.

[edit] Personnel

Widespread Panic

Guest Performers

[edit] Production

  • John Keane - Engineer, Mixing
  • Ken Love - Mastering
  • Doug Trantow - Engineer, Mixing
  • Flournoy Holmes - Artwork, Design

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