Inside In is Mike Gordon

Mike Gordon

Mike Gordon is a bass guitar player and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. Gordon is also an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano, guitar, harmonica and percussion...

's first solo album

Album

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 and was released August 19, 2003. This album was wholly produced during and after the movie, Outside Out

Outside Out

Outside Out is the first full-length feature film from Phish bassist Mike Gordon. It premiered in theaters in early 2001 and starred Jimi Stout, Col. Bruce Hampton, Ashley Scott Shamp, Gordon, and others....

and uses aural tracks from it. Included in the liner notes are lyrics to some tracks, art and design by Andrew Cunningham, photography by David Barron, confessions of a room, acronyms, a "good quote" from Col. Bruce Hampton, and "everything else unsaid".

Gordon formed a solo band to tour in support of the album in late 2003.

In 2006, Gordon created an audio and visual project with his mother, artist Marjorie Minkin, featuring sculpture designs set to the music of Inside In. During the summer, he toured with a backing band called Ramble Dove

Ramble dove

Ramble Dove is a Burlington, Vermont-based supergroup comprising key members of that scene, instigated by Brett R. Hughes which includes Phish bassist Mike Gordon. The band, which was born out of Hughes' weekly Radio Bean honky tonk jam sessions , performs honky-tonk and vintage country music...

 - named after the fictitious band in the Outside Out

Outside Out

Outside Out is the first full-length feature film from Phish bassist Mike Gordon. It premiered in theaters in early 2001 and starred Jimi Stout, Col. Bruce Hampton, Ashley Scott Shamp, Gordon, and others....

film.

The album was released on vinyl for the first time as a deluxe double-LP set in conjunction with Record Store Day

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 on April 16, 2011, pressed on 180g orange vinyl and including "Minkinetics", "Trinners March" and "Be Your Tape", three previously unreleased outtake tracks from the album (available only on vinyl).

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Robert L. Doerschuk praised the album and wrote "One would expect a down-home virtuoso performance from any alumnus of Phish, and that's what you get with Inside In... There's no better way to describe this weird and accessible mix: Inside In is far out."

Track listing

All songs by Mike Gordon unless otherwise noted.

1. "Take Me Out" – 3:03
2. "Bone Delay" – 4:20
3. "Admoop" – 1:56
4. "Outside Out" – 3:23
5. "The Beltless Buckler" – 3:22
6. "Soulfood Man" – 3:28
7. "The Teacher" – 3:31
8. "Gatekeeper" – 3:22
9. "Couch Lady" – 4:01
10. "Major Minor" – 3:43
11. "The Lesson" – 3:00
12. "Exit Wound" (Mike Gordon, Amy Echo, Scott Ellism, Jeff Schartoff, Mike Tempesta) – 3:22
13. "Steel Bones" (Gordon, Bernie Green) – 5:55
14. "Take Me Out II" – 2:24
15. "Take Me Outro" – 2:09

Album Outtakes (available on vinyl release only)

1. "Minkinetics"
2. "Trinners March"
3. "Be Your Tape"

Personnel

• Mike Gordon – banjo, bass, guitar, percussion, pedal steel, accordion, keyboards, sound effects, vocals, tubular bells, bass harmonica
• Elizabeth Combs Beglin – vocals, spoken word
• Buddy Cage
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   – pedal steel guitar
• Vassar Clements
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   – fiddle
• Jeff Coffin
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   – clarinet
• Jon Fishman
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   – drums
• Béla Fleck
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   – banjo
• Future Man
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   – percussion
• Col. Bruce Hampton – guitar, vocals
• James Harvey – piano, trombone, keyboards, clavinet
• Ida James – spoken word
• Gabe Jarrett – drums
• Craig Johnson
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   – trumpet
• Jeff Lawson – drums
• Russ Lawton
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  – drums
• Stuart Paton – percussion
• Jared Slomoff – trumpet, background vocals
• Gordon Stone – pedal steel guitar
• Jimi Stout – spoken word
• Heloise Williams – vocals