Sometimes I'm wandering around Borders and get surprised.I forgot a friend had told me that Sam Phillips is doing an in store appearance at the Tysons Corner, VA Borders this weekend. So I was surprised when he told me, and pissed when I found it is Sunday June 8th and I can't bleeping go because of a work meeting.I guess if she is doing a Borders in store, she's got a new CD out, which she do...
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Every line of influence passes straight through Sam Phillips. In her own music there's shades of Patti Smith and Cyndi Lauper and Billie Holliday, Bobbie Gentry and Emmylou Harris and Martha Reeves. In turn you can hear Sam in Neko Case and Leslie Feist and Nicole Atkins; even Sarah McLachlan and yes, Scarlett Johannson owe something of their sounds to Ms. Phillips.With so much influence before...
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If it wasn't for Sam Phillips and Sun Records, it's doubtful that the popular music of the last fifty years would have sounded the same. Without Phillips, there may not have been an Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis or many more early music pioneers. That's why Liz Scott formed the Sam Phillips Commemorative U.S. Postage Stamp Campaign. Over the last three years, Sco...
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"Nonesuch Records":http://nonesuch.com/store/index.cfm has relaunched its site with an interesting twist- when you buy a physical CD, they'll ship it to you, and provide you with immediate access to DRM-free 320k downloads. kind of cool, but also betwixt and between. one wonders why they didn't just go whole hog and offer a lossless option, saving the cost of shipping the physical product.stii...
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So I wore this album out one winter in Chicago, while building a guitar in my friend's cabinet shop. Talk about freezing. Wet-sanding a finish when you can't feel your fingers. Not so fun. But I got it done, and still play it once in a while.The point is: she's good. She doesn't have a huge vocal range, and her whole thing is sort of obscure. I think her albums were good in direct relatio...
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"Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" - Sam Phillips Another rich slice of idiosyncratic marvelousness from Sam Phillips , "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" uses the real-life 20th-century gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe (one of the first to make a career singing secular music) as a jumping-off point for an evocative song about love and loss and the latent power of the self, particularly when
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