2006 has already been a busy year for Yonder Mountain String Band, releasing the live album Mountain Tracks: Volume 4 and three months later, the band's first studio album in three years and fourth overall.

While the band stays at home on the self-titled album, writing classic sing-alongs and catchy grass tunes, the addition of producer Tom Rothrock (Beck, James Blunt, Foo Fighters, Elliott Smith) brings the jam grass idea into a rock album feel. Jon Fishman once said that he never tried to make Phish concerts sound like albums, so why make albums sound like concerts?

Yonder's new album approaches new areas unseen in live settings for the Boulder string band, including Pete Thomas on drums (Elvis Costello) for the first time and focusing more on the impulsive songwriting rather than the jamming. Thus, it is quite unlike anything Yonder brings to the stage every night or has put out in the past. ~ Full review at JamBase

Track Listing :

• Sidewalk Stars
• I Ain't Been Myself In Years
• How 'Bout You
• Angel
• Fastball
• East Nashville Easter
• Just The Same
• Classic Situation
• Night Out
• Midwest Gospel Radio
• Troubled Mind
• Wind's On Fire

Find out more at The Yonder Mountain website