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Space Wrangler by Widespread Panic
Space Wrangler is an album by Widespread Panic, released in 1988. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 10 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Coconut”, on 9 lists with a best position of #258.
Space Wrangler, the first album from Athens, Georgia's Widespread Panic, came out on the small Atlanta label Landslide Records on February 4, 1988, two years after the band formed, with Michael Houser, the original guitarist, and Todd Nance, the original drummer, in the lineup.
This is southern rock with its boots off and its mind wandering: bluesy grooves, a bit of funk, guitar lines that curl around each other in no hurry to get anywhere, the kind of stuff built to stretch out on a stage. "Coconut" and "Driving Song" are the ones the countdowns have kept. There wasn't room on the original record for the concert favorite "Conrad", and later reissues on Capricorn and Zomba added extra tracks, including "Holden Oversoul" with Phish's Page McConnell on organ. The band has since played the whole album live, first on New Year's Eve 2008 in Denver.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Space Wrangler on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coconut | 9 | #258 | – | 1999–2022 | |
| 2 | Driving Song | 1 | #694 | – | 2010 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.