Bombs & Butterflies is the fifth studio album by the Athens, GA based band Widespread Panic. The band started recording the album in July 1996 at John Keane's studio in Athens. The band held a CD release party one day prior to their Fox Theatre 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.
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Bombs & Butterflies is the fifth studio album by the Athens, GA based band Widespread Panic. The band started recording the album in July 1996 at John Keane's studio in Athens. The band held a CD release party one day prior to their Fox Theatre 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 1997.
The album reached a peak position of #50 on the Billboard 200 chart.
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