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grant lee phillips lightning

10/3/2020

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​Grant-Lee Phillips (from the album Lightning, Show Us Your Stuff available on Yep Roc Records)
A shoe-shuffling marching band leads Grant-Lee Phillips into his recent release with “Ain’t Done Yet”, the track a semi-resume stating ‘I ain’t dead yet got dreamin’ left to do’. Grant-Lee’s young daughter was inspiration when she stated Lightning, Show Us Your Stuff, naming the current collection of tunes from her dad. Grant-Lee Phillips puts a sway on the tracks of Lightning, Do Your Stuff. He is a traveler coming home in “Leave a Light On” and a frustrated man angry at the world for “Straight to the Ground”, a distant memory in real time with “Sometimes You Wake Up in Charleston” and the warmth of a morning sun filling up a room in “Coming To”. The rhythms of Lightning, Show Us Your Stuff pull like an undertow, sunny day slow with tractor beam power. Grant-Lee Phillips captains the narcotic groove in the songs with a hushed vocal, words whispered with intimacy. 
 
A percussive thump is the foundation when “Gather Up” seeks salvation on a raggedy rhythm as hopes for a better tomorrow unfurl in “Mourning Dove”. Grant-Lee Phillips leans towards a literary structure for his stories, the tales weaving and winding over subtle, though ever-changing musical backing. Lightning, Show Us Your Stuff tenderly offers advice in “Lowest Low” as Grant-Lee Phillips steps lightly humming over a bright melody as he exits the album in “Walking in My Sleep”.
 
Listen and buy the music of Grant-Lee Phillips from AMAZON
 
For more information, please visit the Grant-Lee Phillips website
 
 

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