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  • Released May 16, 2000, but available for pre-order (as of 4/13/00, to be mailed just before the release date, with a free sticker) from Dry Goods, Phish's official merchandise arm.
  • Title comes from a song of the same title, about and named for a location Tom Marshall and Trey have spent time writing songs together.
  • Sales: "Farmhouse sold 88,776 copies, ranking it at #12 on the Top 200 Soundscan chart. It is the highest first week sales that Phish has ever had for a record. Billy Breathes debuted at #6 back in 1996, but did not actually sell as many first week copies as Farmhouse."
  • Tracks
    1. Twist
    2. Bug
    3. Back on the Train
    4. Heavy Things
    5. Gotta Jibboo
    6. Dirt
    7. Piper
    8. Sleep
    9. The Inlaw Josie Wales
    10. Sand
    11. First Tube
  • Official Installation:

SOURCE: <http://www.billboard.com/daily/2000/0228_05.asp>

Phish Opens The Doors To Its 'Farmhouse'
Edited by Jonathan Cohen / February 28, 2000, 4:00 p.m. EST

Phish will see its eighth studio album, "Farmhouse," released May 16 on
Elektra. The album was recorded in guitarist Trey Anastasio's Vermont
studio with producer Bryce Goggin. "Farmhouse" is the acclaimed rock
quintet's first studio disc since the 1998 set "The Story Of The Ghost,"
and follows the winter 1999 release of the six-CD live box set, "Hampton
Comes Alive."

A tracklist for "Farmhouse" has yet to be finalized, but the 12-track
album is expected to feature a number of the unreleased songs performed
frequently on Phish's fall 1999 tour, including the title track, "Get
Back On The Train," "Gotta Jiboo," and "Heavy Things."

After two warmup dates on May 21-22 at New York's famed Radio City Music
Hall and a week-long club tour in Japan, the band will embark on its
standard North American summer jaunt, beginning June 22 in Nashville and
concluding with shows July 14-15 in Columbus, Ohio. Touring is expected
to resume in mid-September.

In other Phish news, a documentary about the band titled "Bittersweet
Motel" will make its debut March 12 at the South By Southwest Film
Festival in Austin, Texas. "Outside Out," a film by Phish bassist Mike
Gordon, will also premiere. A theatrical release of "Bittersweet Motel,"
which profiles the band and its 1997 festival the Great Went, is also in
the works.

-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.


Ode to the purported end of dot-coms (early 2001), to the tune of the "Farmhouse" by Phish (author unknown; submitted second-hand 4/19/01):

    Welcome this is a dot com
    We have layoffs here sometimes
    And this time of year is bad


    We are so very sorry
    There is little we can do
    But count them


    They didn't care
    Or not enough
    They weren't there when things got tough
    They told a lie and I got mad
    They weren't there when things go bad


    I never ever saw my options soar
    I never really saw the ROI
    I never ever saw the forecast bright
    In the dot coms things won't be all right

"Simplicity is the new mantra for Phish""
-- Portland, ME newspaper, 12/2/99"

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