Short Trip Home

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Short Trip Home
Studio album by Joshua Bell, Edgar Meyer, Sam Bush, Mike Marshall
Released	1999
Recorded	August 1998
Genre	Classical
Length	64:46
Label	Sony Classical
Producer	Edgar Meyer
Professional reviews
Billboard (favorable) Aug. 21, 1999 (p. 5) Gramophone (favorable) Jan. 2000

Short Trip Home is an album of classical chamber music by a quartet unusual both for its membership and its instrumentation. Double bassist Edgar Meyer wrote the majority of the compositions recorded on the album for a quartet of violin, double bass, mandolin, and guitar. Classically-trained violinist Joshua Bell joins bluegrass musicians Sam Bush and Mike Marshall and the versatile Meyer on the album. In addition to classical music in an American vernacular, the quartet occasionally breaks out on more traditional instrumental bluegrass tunes.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Short Trip Home" (Edgar Meyer)
2. "Hang Hang" (Meyer, Mike Marshall)
3. "BT" (Meyer)
4. "In the Nick of Time" (Meyer)
5. Concert Duo. Prequel (Meyer)
6. "BP" (Meyer)
7. "If I Knew" (Meyer)
8. "OK, All Right" (Meyer)
9. "Death by Triple Fiddle" (Meyer, Sam Bush, Marshall, Joshua Bell)
10. Concert Duo. 1 (all movements by Meyer)
11. Concert Duo. 2
12. Concert Duo. 3
13. Concert Duo. 4

[edit] Personnel

• Joshua Bell, violin
• Edgar Meyer, bass
• Sam Bush, mandolin; violin on "Death by Triple Fiddle"
• Mike Marshall, guitar; mandola on "BT"; violin on "Death by Triple Fiddle"

v • d • e Americana Classical Fusion Ma, Meyer, O'Connor Appalachia Albums Appalachia Waltz (1996) | Appalachian Journey (2000) Mark O'Connor Classical Albums The Fiddle Concerto (1994) | Midnight On The Water (1998) | Fanfare for the Volunteer (1999) | The American Seasons (2001) Other Meyer, Fleck Projects Uncommon Ritual (1997) | Short Trip Home (1999) | Perpetual Motion (2001) | Music For Two (2004)