Short Trip Home is an album of classical chamber music by a quartet unusual both for its membership and its instrumentation.

Classical violinist Joshua Bell joins bluegrass musicians Sam Bush and Mike Marshall and Meyer on the album.

In addition to classical music in an American vernacular, the quartet occasionally breaks out on more traditional instrumental bluegrass tunes.

The track "Short Trip Home" is heard in the Richard Proenneke documentary Alone in the Wilderness.

The track "BT" was used as the theme song for WUNC (FM)'s The State of Things (radio show) from 2004 until 2010.