The wide range of music on Fennario draws from the same American palette that inspired Garcia and Hunter, from the sweet country of �It Must Have Been the Roses� to the Memphis rock and roll of �Tennessee Jed� to the Muscle Shoals soul of �Sugaree.�

To produce the album, Joseph enlisted the core group of top-shelf multi-instrumentalists he�d used on his critically acclaimed debut album, Labor & Spirits: Tom �T-Bone� Wolk (Hall and Oates, The SNL Band), Duke Levine and Jon Carroll (Mary Chapin Carpenter), and vocalist Soozie Tyrell (The E-Street Band). The album�s other principles are Larry Campbell (who was coming off eight years touring with Bob Dylan and who now plays with the Dead�s Phil Lesh), and drummer Dennis McDermott (Marc Cohn). Fennario�s twelve tracks were recorded in five �round-the-clock days at New York�s legendary Legacy Recording Studios. There are two guest performances, bassist Lincoln Schleiffer (on �Mission in the Rain�) and long-time Garcia associate, mandolinist David Grisman (on �Brown-Eyed Women�).