Sci Fidelity Records
2005
One Step Closer
About This Album
While the String Cheese Incident has become known for its on-stage jamming, as captured on its three regular live albums (A String Cheese Incident Live, Carnival '99, and It's About Time), and its dozens of discount-priced, limited-edition concert transcriptions issued through the On the Road series, for its studio albums the band has tended to turn to outside producers, looking for a decisive voice to push them in new directions. Hence, Steve Berlin on Outside Inside and Youth on Untying the Not both presented different visions of what the String Cheese Incident could sound like, and Malcolm Burn (whose previous clients include Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, and the Neville Brothers) presents yet another on One Step Closer. One might as easily say, however, that the group chooses a producer to help it facilitate a current sense of itself and its material, and Burn's function here seems to have been similar to what John Simon attempted with the Band on Music From Big Pink. Indeed, the group borrowed a house in the Rockies near its Boulder, CO, base and recorded there, just as the Band did in Woodstock, NY, back in the '60s. And, as with the Band, the point seems to have been to create a repertoire of material.
Track List

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