Bombs & Butterflies

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Bombs & Butterflies
Bombs & Butterflies cover
Studio album by Widespread Panic
Released February 4, 1997
Recorded July - August 1996
Genre Rock, Southern Rock, Jam
Length 49:20
Label Capricorn (1997)
Zomba (2001)
Producer(s) John Keane
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 2.5/5 stars link

Widespread Panic chronology
Ain't Life Grand
(1994)
Bombs & Butterflies
(1997)
Light Fuse, Get Away
(1998)


Bombs & Butterflies is the fourth studio album by the Athens, GA based band Widespread Panic. The band started recording the album in July of 1996 at John Keane's studion in Athens. The band held a CD release party one day prior to their Fox Theater New Years eve run on December 28, 1996 at Morton Theatre in Athens. It was first released by Capricorn Records on February 4, 1997. It would later be re-released in 2001 by Zomba Music Group.

On June 19, 1997, the band performed Aunt Avis on Late Night With Conan O'Brien. Two days later, on June 21, the music video for Aunt Avis, directed by Billy Bob Thornton, premiers on VH1. The video had been filmed in April of 1997.

The album reached a peak position of #50 on the Billboard 200 chart.

  1. "Radio Child" – 4:21
  2. "Aunt Avis" (Chesnutt) – 3:26
  3. "Tall Boy" – 4:24
  4. "Gradle" – 4:23
  5. "Glory" – 3:45
  6. "Rebirtha" – 7:19
  7. "You Got Yours" – 5:25
  8. "Hope in a Hopeless World" (Staples) – 5:15
  9. "Happy" – 4:56
  10. "Greta" – 6:06

Widespread Panic

John Bell - guitar, vocals
Michael Houser - guitar, vocals
Todd Nance - percussion, drums, vocals
Domingo S. Ortiz - percussion
Dave Schools - bass, percussion, vocals
John Hermann - keyboards


Chad Brown - mixing assistant
Vic Chesnutt - vocals
John Keane - guitar, redal steel, producer, engineer, mixing
Clif Norrell - mixing
Diane Painter - art direction, design
John Ritter - design, illustrations
Nitin Vakukul - photography

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