| Lawn Boy | |||||||||||||
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| Studio album by 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-) |
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| Producer | Phish | ||||||||||||
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| Allmusic | [1] |
| Piero Scaruffi | [2] |
Lawn Boy is Phish's second official studio album, released on September 21, 1990, on the Absolute A Go Go Records and Rough Trade labels. Vinyl LPs of the original Absolute A Go Go release are still known to circulate. The album was re-released by Elektra Records on June 30, 1992.[3]
The song "Fee" appeared as the album's final track on the original release, but was removed from the Elektra re-release. The songs on Lawn Boy include many of the progressive rock and fusion elements featured on the band's first studio album, Junta, as well as incorporating elements of bluegrass, jazz and barbershop quartet.
The music for "Bathtub Gin" was written by Phish frontman Trey Anastasio with 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 on this and other albums, the studio version is a simple affair compared with the improvisational twists and turns often made by the band's extended live versions.[4]
The album was certified gold by the RIAA on July 7, 2004.
In February 2009, Lawn Boy became available as a download in FLAC and MP3 formats at LivePhish.com.
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