Sam Phillips began her entertainment career as a Contemporary Christian Music singer, where she made a number of albums under the name "Leslie Phillips". She began to be disillusioned with the Christian music business due (mostly?) to its intolerance of her brutally honest approach to her faith, and around the same time she met and married T-Bone Burnett (who became her producer as well as her husband) and switched from the Christian record label Word Records to Virgin Records. Since then, she has released the albums "The Undescribable Wow", "Cruel Inventions", and "Martinis and Bikinis" (as well as a few songs that have appeared on movie soundtracks) all under the name Sam Phillips. Her role in the third "Die Hard" movie is her first appearance as an actress; she reportedly was chosen for the part after someone in a position of influence was struck by her picture on the cover of "Martinis and Bikinis".
During the past ten years, Phillips has not limited her creative output to her own recordings. While nominated for a Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, she was cast as the mute, knife-wielding, terrorist in "Die Hard with a Vengeance". Her recordings have been used in films including Bernardo Bertolucci's "Stealing Beauty" ("I Need Love"), Victor Nunez's "Ruby In Paradise" ("Raised on Promises" and "Holding on to the Earth"), Robert Altman's "Pret-a-Porter" ("These Boots Are Made For Walking"), Keith Gordon's "A Midnight Clear", the anti-war film based on Will Warton's book of the same title, and a live performance of "Animals on Wheels" in Wim Wender's "The End of Violence."
Track List:
How To Quit [2:27]
All Night [4:05]
I Dreamed I Stopped Dreaming [1:52]
Open the World [2:19]
Red Silk #5 [2:30]
Reflecting the Light [3:21]
Infiltration [2:16]
Drawman [3:38]
I Wanted To Be Alone [2:16]
Love Changes Everything [3:10]
If I Could Write [2:20]
Hole in My Pocket [1:25]
One Day Late [3:13]
This item will be released on April 27, 2004.
Yes, of course it will
(note, the "bio" was cut/pasted from 2 websites)
Tube asks?
Q: What do you get when you cross Edith Piaf with George Harrison, Marc Bolan and, Tom Waits?
A: Sam Phillips!
This album blindsided me! I had no idea what I was downloading. All I knew was it wasn't İrap or trance. I had it on my HD for at least 3 weeks before I finally burned an audio CDr and put it in my stereo. My jaw dropped! DAMN! This is some of the best songwriting I've heard in YEARS!
We're obviously dealing with one wierd chick here. But it's the entire gestalt what makes this a crucial album for those who appreciate and understand GREAT music! Too eclectic to be "folk music" too acoustic to be "rock". Goldilocks thinks the third bowl is "Just Right".
Grade: A (pick up on it).
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