Description: Billy Breathes is the sixth studio album by American rock band Phish, released by Elektra Records on October 15, 1996. The album was credited with connecting the band, known for its jam band concerts and devoted cult following, with a more mainstream audience. The first single, "Free", was the band's most successful song on two Billboard rock charts, peaking at #11 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart and at #24 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks Chart.[10] The album itself became the band's highest-charting album on the Billboard 200, where it peaked at number seven.[11]Billy Breathes was produced by Steve Lillywhite and recorded at Bearsville Studios in Bearsville, New York between February and June 1996, following Phish's landmark fall 1995 tour. The songs "Free", "Taste", "Cars Trucks Buses", "Theme from the Bottom", "Billy Breathes" and "Prince Caspian" were debuted in concert by Phish over the course of 1995, with the remaining songs not appearing in the band's concert repertoire until after the album's release.[12] "Bliss" was not played live by the band until December 30, 2018, 22 years after the release of the album.[13]The album and its title song were named after guitarist Trey Anastasio's daughter Eliza, who was nicknamed "Billy" as an infant.[14] The album's cover is a close-up shot of bass guitar player Mike Gordon, the first time that any member of Phish had appeared on an album cover. Phish frontman Trey Anastasio recalled in a 1997 interview that the cover came together very quickly on the last day of recording.Upon release, Rolling Stone said that Billy Breathes is "a quiet gem of an album" that confirms Phish "is much more than a jam band from Burlington, Vermont."[15] The album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on January 8, 1999.[16] The album was reissued on LP by Phish's label JEMP Records for Record Store Day in 2018.[17]1."Free"AnastasioMarshallAnastasio3:492."Character Zero"AnastasioMarshallAnastasio4:003."Waste"AnastasioMarshallAnastasio4:504."Taste"AnastasioFishmanGordonMcConnellMarshallAnastasioFishman4:075."Cars Trucks Buses"McConnellinstrumental2:256."Talk"AnastasioMarshallAnastasio3:097."Theme from the Bottom"AnastasioFishmanGordonMcConnellMarshallAnastasio6:228."Train Song"GordonJoseph LinitzGordon with Anastasio2:339."Bliss"Anastasioinstrumental2:0310."Billy Breathes"AnastasioAnastasio5:3111."Swept Away"AnastasioMarshallAnastasio1:1612."Steep"AnastasioFishmanGordonMcConnellMarshallAnastasio1:3713."Prince Caspian"AnastasioMarshallAnastasio5:19
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Artist: Phish
CD Grading: Very Good (VG)
Record Label: Elektra (Label)
Release Title: Billy Breathes
Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard
Color: Multicolor
Case Condition: Good (G)
Inlay Condition: Very Good (VG)
Edition: First Edition
Type: Album
Format: CD
Producer: Phish
Release Year: 1997
Language: English
Era: 1990s
Style: Psychedelic Rock
Features: Album
Genre: Alternative
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States