Songs on the album included "Chilly Water", "Travelin' Light", "Space Wrangler", "Coconut", "The Take Out", "Porch Song", "Stop-Go" and "Driving Song." After Space Wrangler, touring expanded to include additional northeastern dates, along with Texas, Colorado, the west coast, and internationally to Vancouver, Canada.
Bruce Hampton is rumored to have delivered the first pressing to the band. In September of the same year, they recorded their first album, Space Wrangler, at John Keane's studio in Athens.
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In February 1987 the band played the now-legendary series of one dollar Monday night shows at the Uptown Lounge in Athens and the crucial local press began to take notice-FLAGPOLE & Athens Observer art columnist Shan Clark emphasized Widespread Panic's musical virtuosity, songwriting and professionalism. The band played in fraternities and bars regularly before Panic signed a contract with Landslide Records in 1987. Ortiz ("Sunny") began sitting in with the band regularly later that year. On February 6, 1986, Houser called childhood friend and drummer Todd Nance to sit in with Houser, Bell, and Schools for a charity event in Athens it was their first show as "Widespread Panic." The band was named for Houser's once-frequent panic attacks. Bassist Dave Schools met Bell and Houser in 1984 and first played with them on February 24, 1985, at the A-Frame house on Weymanda Court in Athens. They began living together and collaborating on music in that year, writing still-popular songs such as "Driving Song" and "Chilly Water" together. Bell had been playing guitar as a solo act, and invited his new friend Houser, also a guitarist, to join him. John Bell and Michael Houser met in 1981 in their dorm at the University of Georgia. 1.5 2014–present: Todd Nance departure, reduced touring and Nance's deathīand history 1981–1995: Early years and rise to national attention.1.2 1996–2002: Peak touring years and Houser's death.
1.1 1981–1995: Early years and rise to national attention.
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