Trey Anastasio - mercy (2022) [Hi-Res]

Phish’s Trey Anastasio has announced his first acoustic solo album, Mercy, which will arrive on March 11.

Mercy features nine songs written over the course of the pandemic. The album was produced by Bryce Goggin and Robert “RAab” Stevenson, and engineered and mixed by Mike Fahey. The LP will come with new liner notes written by music journalist and Rolling Stone contributor/critic/editor David Fricke.

For the liner notes, Anastasio described Mercy as “a bookend.” He continued: “It’s two years since we went into hiding. This is still going on, and it’s an even lonelier trip… Here I was, still at home, playing acoustic guitar. I thought, ‘These songs just want to be one guy with a guitar, singing.’”