Gumbo (song)

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"Gumbo"
Single by Phish
from the album A Live One
Released1995 (1995)
RecordedDecember 2, 1994, Recreation Hall, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
Genre Rock
Length5:15
Label Elektra PRCD 9364-2
Songwriter(s) Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman
Producer(s) Phish
Phish singles chronology
""Bouncing Around the Room" (Live)"
(1995)
"Gumbo"
(1995)
"Free"
(1996)

"Gumbo" is a song by the American band Phish. It is a funk/jazz song written around 1990 by Phish guitarist and lead vocalist Trey Anastasio and drummer Jon Fishman. It is the third track from their 1995 live album A Live One and was released as their ninth promotional single by Elektra Records in 1995.

Contents

Like "Split Open and Melt," "Gumbo" started out as a strong tune but one that had a destiny that didn’t lie solely in its composition. A mix of acid jazz and loose funk attended with three-part harmonies and silly lyrics, it had all the ingredients for greatness. The first several versions clearly lacked something, which seemed to be fulfilled with the addition of horns – five times on the Giant Country Horn tour in 1991 and twice with the West Coast return of the horns (in 1994). The (12/2/94) version appears on A Live One (from which it was the second single released) as well as the European compilation, Stash . [1]

Track listing

  1. "Gumbo" (Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman) - 5:15

Personnel

Musicians

Trey Anastasio – guitars, vocals
Page McConnell – keyboards, vocals
Mike Gordon – bass guitar, vocals
Jon Fishman – drums, vocals

Also appears on

Notes

  1. Gumbo History Online. Accessed: May 18, 2014.

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