Don't Tell the Band, is the seventh 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...

. 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

Sanctuary Records

Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...

. The album covered a wide variety of styles, from rock to Latin and grunge to soul, yet did not depart from this jam band

Jam band

-Ambiguity:By the late 1990s use of the term jam band also became ambiguous. An editorial at jamband.com suggested that any band of which a primary band such as Phish has done a cover of be included as jam band. The example was including New York post-punk band Talking Heads after Phish performed...

's signature sound.

Randall Bramblett

Randall Bramblett

Randall Bramblett is an American musician and singer-songwriter, whose career as a solo artist, session player, and touring musician, has spanned more than three decades. He has worked with such notable performers as Gregg Allman, Bonnie Raitt, Robbie Robertson, Elvin Bishop, Steve Winwood,...

, a solo musician and member of Steve Winwood

Steve Winwood

Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...

's touring band, joined Widespread Panic on the tenor saxophone for a cover of fIREHOSE

FIREHOSE

Firehose was an alternative rock band consisting of Mike Watt , Ed Crawford , and George Hurley .-History:...

'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

Michael Houser

Michael Houser was the lead guitarist of the band Widespread Panic.Houser was born in Boone, North Carolina, graduated from Hixson High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and became a founding member of Widespread Panic in 1982 while attending the University of Georgia with John Bell...

'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

Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

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

Disc one

1. "Little Lilly" – 5:07
2. "Give" – 3:29
3. "Imitation Leather Shoes" – 4:14
4. "This Part of Town" - 5:20
5. "Sometimes" (Crawford
   Ed Crawford
   Charles Edward Crawford, aka ed fROMOHIO, is an American best known as the lead singer and guitarist for fIREHOSE, an alternative rock band he formed in 1986 with former Minutemen members Mike Watt and George Hurley .-Biography:In 1985, Minutemen vocalist and guitarist D. Boon was killed in a van...
   
   ) – 3:32
6. "Thought Sausage" – 4:39
7. "Down" – 3:52
8. "Big Wooly Mammoth/Tears of a Woman" – 6:45
9. "Casa del Grillo" – 6:30
10. "Old Joe" – 3:50
11. "Action Man" – 4:30
12. "Don't Tell the Band" – 4:11

Disc two (Live bonus disc)

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

Songs from bonus disc comprise the first five tracks of the band's June 2002 release Live in the Classic City

Live in the Classic City

Live in the Classic City is the third live album released by the Athens, GA based band Widespread Panic. The album was recorded over an April 2000 three-night run in their hometown of Athens. It was released in June 2002 and features a mix of originals and cover songs, studded with guest...

 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. The songs "Action Man" & "Give" appeared in the EA Sports

EA Sports

EA Sports is a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they tried to mimic real-life sports networks by calling themselves "EA Sports Network" with pictures or endorsements of real commentators such as John...

 video game NASCAR 2001

NASCAR 2001

NASCAR 2001 is a racing simulator video game developed and published by EA Sports. The game was released on September 19, 2000 for the PlayStation, and became the first from EA Sports' NASCAR series to be released for the PlayStation 2 on November 7, 2000. The game was not released to the Xbox...

.

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
• Michael Houser - guitars, 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

• Randall Bramblett - tenor sax
  Tenor saxophone
  The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
  
   on "Sometimes"
• 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....
  
   - pedal steel guitar
  Pedal steel guitar
  The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"...
  
   on "This Part of Town", additional guitar noises on "Casa Del Grillo"

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....
  
  - engineer, Mixing
• Ken Love - mastering
• Doug Trantow - engineer, Mixing
• Flournoy Holmes - artwork, Design

External links

• Widespread Panic website
• Everyday Companion
• [ All Music entry, single disc]
• [ All Music entry, double disc]