Alternately warm and rough,
Trampled By Lambs and Pecked By the Dove is a collection of multitracked demos and song sketches, recorded by
Phish guitarist
Trey Anastasio with his songwriting partner
Tom Marshall in a series of Vermont farmhouses over several weekends in 1997. Rearranged, the tunes would make up the bulk of Phish's next two studio albums (The Story of the Ghost [1998] and Farmhouse [2000]). The music has an undeniable charm to it and an emotional directness rarely conveyed by
Phish's more polished versions, especially on "Wading in the Velvet Sea" and "Brian and Robert." ~ Jesse Jarnow