Sam Phillips took a deliberate detour from the sparkly neo-psychedelic pop of her best-known work on her 2001 album, Fan Dance, which stripped her songs and their accompaniment to their bare framework and reveled in the beauty that lay within. Phillips and her producer and collaborator, T-Bone Burnett, have followed much the same course with 2004's A Boot and a Shoe, which in many ways sounds like Fan Dance, Pt. 2; featuring a number of the same musicians (including guitarist {$Marc...   [ read more ]

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Sam Phillips is one of the few artists to emerge from the CCM community and thoroughly reinvent herself as a secular artist, but not many songwriters working in any genre today have written about faith, personal morality, the search for truth, and the demands of the spirit with the intelligence, imagination, compassion, and wit that Phillips has brought to her best music. After cutting three albums of pop-oriented Christian music as Leslie Phillips, in 1987 she turned her back on the obvious moral...   [ read more ]

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T Bone Burnett played a major role in Sam Phillips' recording career before she even became Sam Phillips. Their collaboration began when Burnett produced 1987's The Turning, Phillips' last album as Leslie Phillips, the given name she used when she signed with the Christian-oriented Myrrh Records label. After that album, Phillips fled the constraints of the CCM format and, using her nickname Sam Phillips, began recording a series of gorgeous pop albums with Burnett at ...   [ read more ]

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