Lawn Boy by Phish

Lawn Boy, Phish's second album, came out on September 21, 1990, on the small Absolute A Go Go label with Rough Trade handling distribution, and Elektra reissued it in 1992. The Burlington four-piece, Trey Anastasio on guitar, Mike Gordon on bass, Jon Fishman on drums and Page McConnell on keyboards, won the studio time by taking first place at a Rock Rumble contest in a Burlington club in 1989, then cut it at Archer Studios in Winooski, mostly live, producing it themselves. Engineer Dan Archer bought a baby grand just for the sessions, and Fishman played wedged inside a vocal booth.

What comes out is a band that refuses to pick a lane: prog and fusion twists, bluegrass picking, jazz swing and even barbershop harmonies, with local horn players sitting in. "Bouncing Around the Room" is the sweet, looping singalong in the middle of all that brainy noodling. It finally went gold in 2004.

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