Trey Anastasio to release 'Traveler' on October 16th

Trey Anastasio has announced the release date of his latest studio album, Traveler, on October 16^th.

The album was co-produced by Peter Katis (The National and Interpol) and Anastasio last fall at Tarquin Studios in Bridgeport, CT.  In addition to members of the Trey Anastasio Band, several guest artists also appear on the album including The National’s Bryan Devendorf and Matt Berninger, Samuli Kosminen, and Mates of State’s Kori Gardner.

As we reported last week, Anastasio’s new single, titled “Scabbard,” comes out on August 21st and will be available on 7” vinyl.

Anastasio will hit the road for a series of dates this fall in support of Traveler . The tour begins on October 18th at The Fillmore in Detroit, MI and concludes at the newly re-opened Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY.

Trey Anastasio Fall Tour Dates:

10/18 Detroit, MI@The Fillmore

10/19 Chicago, IL@Chicago Theatre

10/20 Columbus, OH@LC Pavilion

10/22 Stroudsburg, PA@Sherman Theater

10/23 Richmond, VA@The National

10/24 Silver Spring, MD@The Fillmore Silver Spring

10/26 New York, NY@The Beacon Theatre

10/27 Boston, MA@Orpheum Theater

10/28 Port Chester, NY@The Capitol Theatre

Trey Anastasio with The National

Phish's Trey Anastasio sat in with The National Friday night at New York’s Beacon Theater. 

The Phish guitarist emerged partway through the group’s set for “Blood Buzz Ohio,” “Squalor Victoria” and “Murder Me Rachel.” 

While onstage, the members of The National described the guitarist as “a hero of ours.” 

Trey Anastasio New Album Update

According to an article on Spin.com, Trey Anastasio is working with noted producer Peter Katis (The National/Mates of State, Interpol). The article states, “Since winding up his fall tour, the Phish guitarist has been making a daily commute from his New York City home to Bridgeport, Connecticut’s Tarquin Studios, recording with his band and members of the National and Mates of State for the last month.” The album will also feature members of Anastasio’s current solo group, including Jennifer Hartswick and Natalie Cressman, who tweeted about recording sessions with Anastasio earlier this month.

As the piece points out, Anastasio and Katis, share a common bond through the Burlington, VT punk group The Pants who Katis produced in the ‘90s. Members of The Pants were also part of Anastasio’s short-lived project New York!, whose lone show introduced future Phish songs “Dirt” and “Saw It Again” (and perhaps signaled the band’s shift toward the more, ambient, indie-leaning songs which the guitarist wrote at the tail end of the ‘90s).

The members of The National also have deep roots in the Phish world. One of the band’s earliest predecessor, Equinox—which featured future National members Aaron Dessner (guitar), Bryce Dessner (guitar) and Bryan Devendorf (drums)—covered The Allman Brothers and the Grateful Dead and has a sound that saxophonist Kevin Seal described as “Sorta jammy and the product of listening to a lot of Phish and classic rock radio.” Bryan Devendorf and his brother Scott, who play bass and guitar in The National, also took National frontman Matt Berninger—the only non-jam fan in the group—to a Deer Creek Phish show once. As Aaron Dessner recalled on Jambands.com in 2009, “He listened to one song and then went and hid in the car. Matt can still not understand at all how any of us can stomach Phish but pretty much everyone else in the band grew up on their music.”

Phish has played a number of indie rock songs over the years, including TV on the Radio’s “Golden Age,” Pavement’s “Gold Soundz” and Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.” Anastasio and Bryce Dessner also share backgrounds in both improvisational and classical music. The members of The National are also working on an all-star Grateful Dead tribute album benefiting the Red Hot Organization.

(Article Originally appeared on Jambands.com)