''A String Cheese Incident'' is the second release and first live album of

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Jam band A jam band is a musical group whose concerts (and live albums) are characterized by lengthy improvisational " jams." These include extended musical improvisation over rhythmic grooves and chord patterns, and long sets of music which often ...

The String Cheese Incident The String Cheese Incident (SCI) is an American jam band from Crested Butte and Telluride, Colorado, formed in 1993. The band is composed of Michael Kang (acoustic/electric mandolin, electric guitar, and violin), Michael Travis (drums and percu ...

. The album chronicles a single concert from the Fox Theatre in Boulder, Colorado on February 27, 1997 and is the first to feature pianist

Kyle Hollingsworth Kyle Hollingsworth is an American rock keyboard player best known for playing in The String Cheese Incident. Kyle sings and plays electric piano, Hammond organ, clavinet, synthesizer and accordion. Kyle also leads a solo project, Kyle Hollingsw ...

as part of the group. This album is widely considered the best CD for new converts to listen to in order to become acquainted to the band's live sound.

Track listing

#''"Lonesome Fiddle Blues" '' ( Millie Clements) – 9:58 #''"Little Hands" '' (

Bill Nershi Bill "Hershey" Nershi (born September 16, 1961 in New Jersey) is a founding member and acoustic guitarist for The String Cheese Incident, from Boulder, Colorado. The String Cheese Incident took a break starting in the summer of 2007, but the ban ...

) – 8:16 #''"Dudley's Kitchen"'' (Bill Nershi) – 3:02 #''"Rhythm of the Road" '' (Bill Nershi) – 6:08 #''"How Mountain Girls Can Love" '' (

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) – 2:56 #''"Pirates"'' ( Michael Kang) – 9:27 #''"Wake Up"'' (Bill Nershi) – 7:05 #''"Land's End"'' ( Tim O'Brien) – 12:00 #''"San Jose"'' (Michael Kang, Bill Nershi) – 8:53 #"

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" ( Joe Perry,

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) – 4:46

Credits

The String Cheese Incident

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Acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

Keith Moseley Keith Moseley (born February 5, 1965) is an American musician and songwriter, who plays bass guitar among other instruments for The String Cheese Incident, a jamband from Boulder, Colorado, of which he is a founding member. He has written and pr ...

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Bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and s ...

– Accordion,

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* Michael Kang–

Mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

Violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

* Michael Travis –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks ...

Production

*Kevin Clock –

Mixing Engineer A mixing engineer (or simply mix engineer) is responsible for combining ("mixing") different sonic elements of an auditory piece into a complete rendition (also known as "final mix" or "mixdown"), whether in music, film, or any other content of a ...

, Mastering *Steve McNamara – Mastering *The String Cheese Incident – Producer *Jay Sayler –

Recording Engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproducti ...

*Austin Shaw – Cover Design,

Cover Art Cover art is a type of artwork presented as an illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book (often on a dust jacket), magazine, newspaper (tabloid), comic book, video game ( box art), music album ( album ...

*Jon OLeary – Co-mixing Engineer, Producer

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:String Cheese Incident The String Cheese Incident albums 1997 live albums