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Grant Lee Phillips
Ladies Love Oracle

(Cooking Vinyl, 2000)

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Grant Lee Phillips

Known for his work with Grant Lee Buffalo in the early '90s, Grant Lee Phillips has maintained a steady solo output, but his first remains just about his best. As is quoted on the back of the CD by Phillips himself, "recorded over the course of three days in October '99, Ladies Love Oracle is just me in the raw, me in the dark, me in the basement. Sometimes a sketch says more than a mural". The analogy rings true, and although these songs are stripped back, they are exemplary of the craft with which Phillips approaches his songwriting. His weathered but delicate voice weaves through these beautifully melancholic songs about love and loss, such as in the tune Folding: "Oh what a painful lament / Knowing what was / And not knowing where it went" before leading to the chorus "Darling I'm folding / I'm tired of holding onto a love untrue". These songs are honest, and they are open - laid out bare without any loud instrumentation for the lyrics to hide behind. Grant Lee Phillips is one of the better songwriters active in America today, and Ladies Love Oracle is brimming with proof.

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Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 01/05/2009

Further Listening

Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (Drag City, 2009)

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker (Cooking Vinyl, 2000)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go (Domino, 2006)

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