Grant-Lee Phillips seems a bit torn and frayed on All That You Can Dream, which comes as no surprise. Along with so many others, the Nashville-based troubadour has been juggling a host of challenges, from the pandemic to toxic politics […]
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Grant-Lee Phillips has been doing this for a while, and he knows it. “I may not be young / A lot of songs are sung,” he concedes calmly on the leadoff track of Lightning, Show Us Your Stuff, hastening to […]
(From Part One) The world shares a voice when it comes to music, a central expression extracting the best and profoundest in us. Comprised always of sound, in its rhythms, reaches, and rampings up-and-down, music also includes silence, but not […]
Labels matter. Record labels, that is. I came of age when my go-to labels were Flying Fish, Rounder, and ECM. They had not just an identity, a personality, they had taste. They knew what was good and filled in the […]
After being based in various California locations (Stockton, San Francisco and L.A.) for many years, singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips moved to Nashville in 2013. He released eight full-albums before the move and now we have his first The Narrows (Yep Roc) from his time in Tennessee. […]
Hang out long enough with any musician or writer, artist or creative type, and you’re likely to hear talk about the importance of finding your voice. It’s shorthand for what makes an individual artist different from everyone else in the […]
The title of the latest album (out March 16) from Grant-Lee Phillips comes from the lyrics of “Moccasin Creek,” one of the evocatively detailed songs that shows his music benefitting from such a tight focus. Phillips’ previous work has often had […]
A sound recipe for indie musician survival is to share a tour bill and road miles, and cross-pollinate each other’s audiences while you’re at it. Such must have been the thinking that brought together veteran musicians Steve Poltz and Grant […]
As dreamers go, Grant-Lee Phillips is decidedly a product of his surroundings, a Los Angeles boy whose taut poetic visions are wrapped in a sun-streaked romanticism. Strangelet opens on a note of desperation, a love-torn soul craving escape. But it […]
In the years since the demise of his late, great trio Grant Lee Buffalo, Grant Lee Phillips has dabbled in acting (“Gilmore Girls”), film scoring (Easy) and haiku (don’t ask), releasing several pleasant, if increasingly aimless, solo records along the […]
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