A Picture of Nectar

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| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r53475|pure_url=yes}}

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Allmusic staff writer Jim Smith gave the album four and a half stars out of five, noting the variety of musical genres explored on the album and calling it "a surprisingly tight record for a band that built its reputation on endless concert jams".{{cite web|title=allmusic – A Picture of Nectar > Overview|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r53475|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=Allmusic|last=Smith|first=Jim|access-date=June 8, 2009}}

In an April 2, 1992, review, Billboard magazine raved that A Picture of Nectar "...should be required on all college listening lists. The songs are all over the place from whacked-out rock to bluegrass to jazz. The constant is the high quality of musicianship and spirit that runs from track to track."

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|headline = A Picture of Nectar

|extra_column=Lead vocals | title1=Llama

|note1=| length1=3:32

|writer1=Trey Anastasio |extra1= Anastasio| title2=Eliza

|note2=| length2=1:32

|writer2=Anastasio|extra2= instrumental | title3=Cavern

|note3=| length3=4:24

| writer3={{hlist|Anastasio|Tom Marshall|Scott Herman}}

|extra3=Anastasio | title4=Poor Heart

|note4=| length4=2:45

| writer4=Mike Gordon

|extra4= Gordon| title5=Stash

| length5=7:11

| writer5={{hlist|Anastasio|Marshall}}

| extra5 = Anastasio

| title6=Manteca

| length6=0:29

| writer6={{hlist|Gil Fuller|Dizzy Gillespie|Chano Pozo}}

| extra6 = {{hlist|Anastasio|Jon Fishman|Gordon|Page McConnell}}

| title7=Guelah Papyrus

| length7=5:22

| writer7={{hlist|Anastasio|Marshall}}

| extra7 = Anastasio

| title8=Magilla

| extra8 = instrumental

| length8=2:46

| writer8=McConnell

| title9=The Landlady

| length9=2:56

|writer9=Anastasio |extra9 = instrumental

|title10=Glide

| length10=4:13

| writer10={{hlist|Anastasio|Fishman|Gordon|McConnell|Marshall}}

| extra10 = {{hlist|Anastasio|Gordon|McConnell}}

| title11=Tweezer

| length11=8:42

| writer11={{hlist|Anastasio|Fishman|Gordon|McConnell}}

| extra11 = {{hlist|Anastasio|Fishman|Gordon|McConnell}}

| title12=The Mango Song

| length12=6:24

|extra12 = Anastasio

|writer12=Anastasio

| title13=Chalk Dust Torture

| length13=4:36

| writer13={{hlist|Anastasio|Marshall}}

| extra13 = Anastasio

| title14=Faht

| length14=2:21

| extra14 = instrumental

| writer14=Fishman

| title15=Catapult

| length15=0:32

| extra15 = Gordon

| writer15=Gordon

| title16=Tweezer Reprise

| length16=2:40

| writer16={{hlist|Anastasio|Fishman|Gordon|McConnell}}

| extra16 = {{hlist|Anastasio|Fishman|Gordon|McConnell}}

| total_length=60:25

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Phish

• Trey Anastasio – guitar, lead vocals
• Page McConnell – keyboard, organ, backing vocals
• Mike Gordon – bass guitar, vocals, lead vocals on "Poor Heart" and "Catapult"
• Jon Fishman – drums, backing vocals

Additional

• Gordon Stone – pedal steel, banjo
• Michael Mills – art direction
• Tom Walters – assistant engineer
• Jon Altschiller – engineer
• Bob Ludwig – mastering
• B.C. Kagan – photography
• Joe Witkop – photography
• Kevin Halpin – producer, engineer

The song "Llama" is included in the music video game Rock Band 3, where it is the second song in the main-game series (not including DLC) to have full Impossible rating for all band members (Painkiller from Rock Band 2 is the first). However, it is the first to have a full Impossible rating with keys included. "Stash" and "Tweezer" were also released as downloadable content for Rock Band 3 in 2011.

"Tweezer Reprise" was used in a Michael Phelps montage following his 19th Olympic medal in 2012.

It was also used by the Atlanta Falcons in their introduction video at Super Bowl 51.

"Catapult" features a sample from "I Remember Now" by Queensrÿche off of the album Operation: Mindcrime.

{{reflist|30em}}

• [http://phish.com/ Phish's Official Site]
• [http://phish.com/#/music/picture-of-nectar Phish.com: Picture of Nectar Album Page]

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Category:1992 albums

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Category:Burlington, Vermont

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