Mike Gordon and Leo Kottke promoted their collaborative album on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s #PlayAtHome series on Friday, Oct. 2. The duo performed "The Only One," which featured drummer (and Gordon's Phish bandmate) Jon Fishman, who appears throughout the album.
"Acoustic guitar pioneer Leo Kottke has once again teamed up with Phish bassist Mike Gordon for a new album titled Noon," read the video's description. "Here they are performing the song 'The Only One' for A Late Show's #PlayAtHome series accompanied by the incomparable Jon Fishman on percussion."
The duo’s Noon LP – which was released on Aug. 28 – marked their first collaboration since 2005’s Sixty Six Steps, and it is also Kottke’s first studio album of any kind since then.
“Mike likes to write a lot of stuff and then throw out the shit that doesn’t hold up the next day,” Kottke told American Songwriter. “He works that way. I can’t do that. I’m always just farting around and eventually stumbling over something. It rings your bell, you play it into the ground and that will make something else happen. We’re an odd couple. ‘Cause he’s a Pachinko machine and I’m paint drying. And it seems to meet somewhere in the middle.”
Watch the performance of "The Only One" and stream Noon via Spotify below.
