- Lawn Boy
Infobox Album |
Name = Lawn Boy
Type = Studio
Artist =Phish
Released =September 21 ,1990
Recorded = May-December 1989, Archer Studios,Winooski, Vermont
Genre = Rock, jam,jazz fusion
Length = 48:02
Label = Absolute A Go Go / Rough Trade (1990-92)
Elektra (1992-)
Producer =Phish
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:cyn8b5z4tsqe link]
Last album = "Junta"
(1988)
This album = "Lawn Boy"
(1990)
Next album = "A Picture of Nectar "
(1992)"Lawn Boy" was
Phish 's fourthalbum , hitting stores onSeptember 21 ,1990 . It was originally released on the "Absolute A Go Go Records" and "Rough Trade" labels. It was later re-released byElektra Records onJune 30 ,1992 . [ [http://phish.com/releases/detail.php?ID=54 Phish :: Official Releases ] ] The song "Fee" appeared as the album's final track on the original release, but was deleted from the Elektra re-release. It contains many of theprogressive rock and fusion elements of their previous album "Junta", as well as bluegrass,jazz , andbarbershop quartet .The album was certified gold by the RIAA on
July 7 ,2004 . Vinyl LPs of the original "Absolute A Go Go" release exist.The music for "Bathtub Gin" was written by Phish frontman
Trey Anastasio and lyrics by the band's friend Suzannah Goodman. The lyrics are reprinted "by permission of Bret and Wendy" according to the liner notes and the album version quotes George Gershwin's classical-jazz standard "Rhapsody in Blue ". As with many Phish songs, the album version is a simple affair compared with the twists and turns of improvisation inserted in concert versions. [ cite book
last = Budnick
first = Dean
authorlink =
coauthors =
year = 1996
title = The Phishing Manual: A compendium to the music of Phish
publisher = Hyperion
location = New York
id = ISBN 0-7868-8203-4 ]Track listing
#"The Squirming Coil" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 6:04
#"Reba" (Anastasio) - 12:27
#"My Sweet One" (Fishman) - 2:07
#"Split Open and Melt" (Anastasio) - 4:42
#"The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony" (Anastasio) - 1:41
#"Bathtub Gin" (Anastasio, Goodman) - 4:29
#"Run Like an Antelope" (Anastasio, Marshall, Pollak) - 9:52
#"Lawn Boy" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 2:32
#"Bouncing Around the Room " (Anastasio, Marshall) - 3:52Personnel
Phish:
*Trey Anastasio -guitar s, vocals, arranger
*Page McConnell -piano , organ, vocals
*Mike Gordon - bass, vocals
*Jon Fishman -drum s, vacuum, vocalsWith guests on "Split Open and Melt":
*Giant Country Horns :
**Joseph Sommerville, Jr. -trumpet
**Dave "The Truth" Grippo -alto saxophone
**Russell B. Remington -tenor saxophone
*Christine Lynch - vocalsNotes
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