Co-Balt is the second and final studio album by the Athens, Georgia-based band brute., a collaboration between guitarist Vic Chesnutt and the members of Widespread Panic.

[5] It was released seven years after the band's debut release, Nine High a Pallet, on April 9, 2002.

[6] The night of the release, the band played their final live concert (though they would play a radio show a few weeks later) at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, Georgia.