''Ask The Fish'' is a live album by
Leftover Salmon
Leftover Salmon is an American jam band from Boulder, Colorado, formed in 1989. The band's music is a blend of bluegrass, rock, country, and Cajun/Zydeco. Over their thirty years as a band Salmon have released seven studio albums and three li ...
originally released in 1995. It was reissued once in 1997 by
Hollywood Records, and again in 2001 on Bert Records. The album was recorded live at the
Fox Theatre in
Boulder, Colorado, on October 28 and 29, 1994.
[Leftover Salmon, ''Ask the Fish'', CD booklet]
The album is mentioned in
Beth Groundwater's 2009 novel ''To Hell in a Handbasket''.
Reception
In a review for
AllMusic
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, Brian Beatty noted that the album "goes a long way toward explaining the band's popularity with a growing fan base," and wrote: "Skillfully hopping from genre to genre, often within a single song, the band plays with the muscle that a lot of noodling jam bands lack. There's also an ever-present sense of humor... that's as fractured as the band's good-time hippie sound."
Dallas Embry of Louisville Music News described the album as "an hour-long concert of subdued mayhem, jazzy noodling on bluegrass instruments, fish sounds, gibberish and some fine music," and commented: "Put it all together and you have a talented, fun-loving, party down group of guys whom I would love to see in concert."
Writing for
The Aspen Times
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History
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, Stewart Oksenhorn stated that the album featured "the band's goofiness as much as its musical prowess," and remarked that it "showed the band mixing its zydeco, bluegrass and rock influences... with an environmental message about marine life, delivered with typical eccentricity."
Track listing
#"Carnival Time" (Unknown) - 3:48
#"Bend in the River" (
Drew Emmitt) - 3:03
#"Ask the Fish" (
Vince Herman, Traditional) - 8:52
#"Lonesome Road" (Emmitt) - 4:23
#"Two Step au Will/Madame Rosin" (Balfa, Herman, Traditional) - 5:56
#"Rueben's Train" (Traditional) - 5:35
#"When the Levee Breaks" (
Memphis Minnie
Lizzie Douglas (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973), better known as Memphis Minnie, was a blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose recording career lasted for over three decades. She recorded around 200 songs, some of the best known being "Wh ...
) - 9:05
#"Jokester" (Vince Farsetta) - 3:36
#"Stay Away Monday" (Herman, Sorrentino) - 2:53
#"Cactus Flower" (Pritchard) - :30
#"Hot Corn/Cold Corn" (Traditional) - 3:41
#"Come on Home" (Handy) - 5:03
#"Rocky Road Blues" (Monroe) - 3:49
#"70s Lick" (Traditional) - :31
#"Headbag" (Herman, Jogerst, Vann) - 5:59
Personnel
Leftover Salmon:
[
* Vince Herman - ]vocals
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, acoustic guitar, rubboard
* Drew Emmitt - electric guitar
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, acoustic and electric mandolin, fiddle, vocals
*Mark Vann - banjo, vocals
*Tye North - bass, vocals
*Michael Wooten - drums, percussion
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References
Leftover Salmon albums
1995 live albums
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