Įarly incarnations of several tracks from the album can be heard on the 2000 release Trampled by Lambs and Pecked by the Dove, a collection of song sketches recorded by frontman Trey Anastasio and lyricist Tom Marshall. "End of Session" was performed live for the first time on July 25, 2017. with airy, uncluttered grooves and relaxed vocals." Unlike Phish's previous albums, The Story of the Ghost does not include any instrumentals. Good funk, real funk, is not played by four white guys from Vermont." Much of the album, however, is defined by what Rolling Stone called an "unhurried vibe. Anastasio had coined the "cow-funk" term in the band's 1997 official biography The Phish Book, observing that "What we’re doing now is really more about groove than funk. Ī few of the album's songs reflect the band's 1997 "cow-funk" sound, with bass guitarist Mike Gordon taking a more prominent role. The progressive rock song "Guyute" is the only track on the album to pre-date 1997, having first been performed by Phish in 1994. Additional excerpts from the improvisational "Ghost Sessions" were also later released as The Siket Disc.
The band then took favorite moments from those in-studio jams and wrote songs around them, adding lyrics from a book of writings by long-time Phish lyricist Tom Marshall. Much of the album originated during large-scale improvisation sessions. The album's first single was " Birds of a Feather", which was a Top 20 hit on Billboard magazine's Adult Alternative Songs chart. The album features an emphasis on the jazz-funk influenced "cow-funk" style, which the group had been experimenting with in concert throughout 19. The Story of the Ghost is the seventh studio album by American rock band Phish, released by Elektra Records on October 27, 1998.
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