| Phillips, Sam / A Boot and a Shoe |
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| Album: | A Boot and a Shoe | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Phillips, Sam | Added: | Aug 2004 | |
| Label: | Nonesuch Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-10-18 | Pull Date: | 2004-12-20 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 19 | Dec 12 | Dec 5 | Nov 28 | Nov 21 | Nov 14 | Nov 7 | Oct 31 |
| Airplays: | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 22, 2011: | Music Casserole All Night | 4. | Aug 03, 2006: | Stirling's Approximation How to Quit | |
| 2. | Oct 15, 2008: | Brownian Motion All Night | 5. | May 30, 2005: | Stirling's Approximation All Night | |
| 3. | Mar 11, 2007: | Multiple Personality Disorder All Night | 6. | Jan 16, 2005: | Anywhere Out of the World All Night |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2004-10-13 | ||
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Fans of Eleni Mandell, Tom Waits, Niko Case pay attention: Sam’s a girl. And she excels at the smokey noir cabaret acoustic bluesy/western sexy swing lounge feel that you know and love. Nothing trite, derivative. Great stuff, acoustic stripped down, 1920’s Django Rheinhardt jazz turns bluesy western turns Toms Waits low fi big percussion. Did I mention “sexy”? Wow, Sam Phillips tracks by and in a second my fickle heart is saying “Eleni Who?”… okay, not really but almost. Every song on this CD is a big winner. Don’t believe me yet? Well T. Bone Burnett and Marc Ribot think enough of her to contribute their talents to this (among other stellar players). 1) acoustic guitar w/ some brushed drums, smokey loungey western cabaret, sublime 2) dark noir w/ Tom Waits style percussion 3) wow, a nice slow hip swinger, dark mopey but sexy, with pretty string arrangement, okay, analogies to Eleni would be far too obvious here 4) upbeat, near perfect traditional near pop 5) is that a dobro? Blues swing, nice upbeat 6) western waltz, chill almost solo w/ acoustic guitar, but nice embellishments appear in string section 7) upbeat 2/4 near honkey tonk, pretty as a flower 8) sexy swing, say no more (except: check the violin leads!!) 9) dark, good swing to it 10) straight pop beat, big crash cymbal, this is damn close to indie pop 11) upbeat acoustic guitar singer/songwriter overall 12) minimal sing/song story telling, dark 13) 2/4 bouncy feel, fairly stripped though, pretty, with pleasant positive message, sorta | ||
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