Pickin' On Series - Gone Phishin: Bluegrass Tribute (2000)

Record label CMH has spun out easy-listening bluegrass "tribute" albums by the score. Thus it seemed inevitable that Phish would eventually come into the label's musical crosshairs. Despite its seeming improbability, this transposition of spacey post-Dead improvisations into down-home bluegrass actually makes a lot of sense. Talented "newgrass" pickers thrive on the same sort of free-form musical explorations that have long typified Phish's music and made them such an immense draw as a live act. Though often delightful, these studio-musician-rendered covers of Phish phavorites like "Silent in the Morning," "Glide," and "Chalkdust Torture" tend to pale a bit when measured against the real thing. Thus the real appeal of Gone Phishin' will probably be pretty much limited to hard-core, open-minded Phish phanatics.

Track listing:

01. Richard Bailey & Tim Crouch & Byron House & Earl Palmer & Brent Truitt - Silent in the Morning (4:48)
02. Richard Bailey & Tim Crouch & Byron House & Earl Palmer & Brent Truitt - Glide (3:59)
03. Richard Bailey & Tim Crouch & Byron House & Earl Palmer & Brent Truitt - Rift (4:21)
04. Richard Bailey & Tim Crouch & Byron House & Earl Palmer & Brent Truitt - Cavern (3:50)
05. Richard Bailey & Tim Crouch & Byron House & Earl Palmer & Brent Truitt - Wading the Velvet Sea (2:59)
06. Richard Bailey & Tim Crouch & Byron House & Rob Ickes & Earl Palmer & Brent Truitt - Tweezer (4:41)
07. Richard Bailey & Byron House & Earl Palmer & Brent Truitt - Birds of a Feather (3:25)
08. Richard Bailey & Byron House & Earl Palmer & Brent Truitt - Chalkdust Torture (4:08)
09. Richard Bailey & Tim Crouch & Byron House & Earl Palmer & Brent Truitt - Sparkle (4:05)
10. Byron House & Earl Palmer & Brent Truitt - Brian and Robert (3:14)
11. Richard Bailey, Byron House, Rob Ickes, Earl Palmer & Brent Truitt - Water in the Sky (2:26)
12. Byron House & Rob Ickes & Earl Palmer & Brent Truitt - Fast Enough for You (3:45)