Virginia Creeper

構成数 : 1枚
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Personnel: Grant-Lee Phillips (vocals, guitar, banjo, piano); Cindy Wasserman (vocals); Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar, dobro, mandolin); Jon Brion (ukulele); Bill Bonk (accordion); Zac Rae (keyboards, vibraphone); Sebastian Steinberg, Sheldon Gomberg (upright bass); Kevin Jarvis (drums); Danny Frankel (percussion).
Recorded at Sunset Sound Factory, Hollywood, California in August 2003.
Continuing to thrive in a solo setting following the late-1990s collapse of his critically acclaimed outfit Grant Lee Buffalo, Grant-Lee Phillips used VIRGINIA CREEPER as a return to creating music with a contingent of musicians, versus the go-it-alone approach he took on 2001's MOBILIZE. He's aided by a notable coterie of creative talents, including pop maestro Jon Brion and renowned pedal steel guitarist Greg Leisz.
The marriage of Phillips's dark songs and subdued musical arrangements, replete with dobro and strings, results in 11 beautifully creaky alt-country tracks that were cut in only three days. Ladies serve as inspiration on nearly half the tunes, ranging from the brassy heroine of the fiddle-driven "Calamity Jane" and the art icon of the melancholy "Mona Lisa" to the sassy namesake of the hook-soaked "Lily-a-Passion." The cherry on the top of this country-folk masterpiece is a cover of Gram Parsons's "Hickory Wind," which finds Phillips floating through a bittersweet mix of crying lap steel and Cindy Wasserman's honeyed harmonies.