Aint Life Grand Album: Aint Life Grand (1994)
Blue Indian Album: Til the Medicine Takes (2001)
by Widespread Panic
Ain't Life Grand is the fourth studio album by the Athens, GA-based band Widespread Panic. It was released by Capricorn Records and Warner Bros. Records on September 6, 1994. It was re-released in 2001 by Zomba Music Group. On July 3, 2014, the band announced that Ain't Life Grand would be reissued on vinyl in August 2014.
The band got minor airplay for their cover of Bloodkin's "Can't Get High," as well as their own "Airplane." They performed the song '"Ain't Life Grand'" at Morehouse College for Good Morning America.
The band began rehearsing for the album by recording pre-recording sessions at John Keane's home studio like their first album, Space Wrangler. They were so pleased with the results that they decided to use the sessions for Ain't Life Grand instead of going into the studio on a future date with their producer Johnny Sandlin.
John Bell – guitar, mandolin, vocals
John Hermann - keyboards, vocals
Michael Houser – guitar, vocals
Todd Nance – drums, vocals
Domingo S. Ortiz – percussion
Dave Schools – bass guitar
Guest performers
David Blackmon – fiddle
Eric Carter – vocals
Adriene Fishe – vocals
John Keane – guitar, pedal steel, vocals
Dwight Manning – oboe
Ain't Life Grand
Widespread Panic
Watchin people roll by
Wonderin where they're goin
Hey, what's your job
What are you knowin
Drivin to the grocery store
Pull my money out
Passin by the liquor store
Throw my money down
Ain't life grand
Ain't life grand
My wife's got the blues
Now I've got them
Gonna bring her a kiss
Make those blues run
Ain't life grand
Ain't life grand
Sun came out the other day
Through those dusty clouds
And in my mind I was a child
And it felt good!
Ain't life grand (x4)
Blue Indian
Widespread Panic
Oh, Pappy left a chair like he's still sittin' there
Once I almost saw him make his move
Brave Indian who never changes his mood
In a painting on the wall right there
Oh, how long 'til the morning wakes
Oh, how long 'til the medicine takes
Oh, Sally buffalo in the apartment just below
Just a bein' without a care
Oh, children from my brood they come and bring me food
Maybe open up a window for air
Oh, just now I smell the cornbread bake
Oh, now, now, now I feel the medicine take
Just like home
Where the stray dogs go through it all
Still right here, still just here,
Brave little friend
Well, we got a party goin' on many spirits strong
Ain't preacher just a happy to meet ya
Half a bottle 'neath the bed keep our spirits fed
My hat's off to you, to you and you
And now our brave friends, too, dancing circles through the room
And a broom and a radio and a twistin out a dos-e-do
Brand new day, the whole world's goin'
Whole room's goin' so
Just now, don't hesitate (hesitate)
Oh, taste the morning break (morning break)
Sweet, sweet, young honeycomb (honeycomb)
On, now, now, now just like home (just like home)
Oh, just like, just like home
Wher
