Grant Lee Buffalo was a 90's band that was pretty much a vehicle for Grant Lee Phillips, a multi instrument virtuoso and vocalist. As Grant Lee Buffalo, they released four albums: Fuzzy (1993), Mighty Joe Moon (1994), Copperopolis (1996) and Jubilee (1998). Phillips often tackled political and social issues in his lyrics (for example, "Lone Star Song" from Mighty Joe Moon references the infam...
I am still in the mood for revisiting the albums of yesteryear. 'Mockingbirds' came on via the shuffle a few minutes ago, so I am spending some time listening to 'Mighty Joe Moon'. I remember falling in love with Grant Lee Phillip's voice the first time I heard this song. I think this came out in....94 I wanna say? I like all of the GLB albums and all of Phillips solo albums, but this is my fav...
Don't know if anyone has posted on this before, but here goes...This is horrible, coming from the mouth of an admitted music addict, but there are artists that I will completely overlook based on their name alone. It's ridiculous, I know (most of the time anyway) ... but every once in a while I will hear the artist years after the fact and realize that a mistake was made. Here's one that I over...
I'm piggy-backing on Blair's Grant Lee Buffalo post from last week, just for the opportunity to post my favorite GLB song - When I first heard GLB, I was living in England and heard this band from California singing about Texas (my home state) - It took me 3 months to track down the CD when I got back to my tiny college town a year later and I've never stopped loving GLB - Bethlehem Steel is my...