“Drift While You're Sleeping” by Trey Anastasio

"Drift While You're Sleeping" comes from Ghosts of the Forest, the 2019 album Trey Anastasio made with a side project of the same name, a detour from his day job as Phish's guitarist. Anastasio wrote it alone, words and music, and it's one of just nine songs on a record that came out only on vinyl and streaming services.

The project was partly a tribute to his late friend Chris Cottrell, lost to adrenal cancer in January 2018. Phish drummer Jon Fishman and Trey Anastasio Band bassist Tony Markellis are among the musicians on the album, the last studio work Markellis did with Anastasio before his death in 2021. On stage the group kept the long Phish-style jams but played the same setlist night after night, and the whole venture became the focus of the documentary Between Me and My Mind.

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