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Grant Lee Phillips (musician)
Grant-Lee Phillips (born Bryan G. Phillips; September 1, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He led the group Grant Lee Buffalo in the 1990s, afterwards launching a solo career. He features as the town troubadour in ''Gilmore Girls''. Background Born in Stockton, California, Phillips began playing the guitar in his early teens. At age 19, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked tarring roofs to fund evening classes at UCLA and forming bands. He eventually dropped out of college and linked up with an old friend from Stockton named Jeffrey Clark. In the late 1980s, Phillips lived on campus at CalArts with future wife Denise Siegel, whom he met at a party. Phillips informally took art classes, went to public lectures and film screenings, and immersed himself in the school's World Music program until 1990Shiva Burlesquereleased two LPs, ''Shiva Burlesque'' (Nate Starkman & Son; 1987) and ''Mercury Blues'' (Fundamental; 1990). Brenner was replaced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockton, California
Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County, California, San Joaquin County in the Central Valley (California), Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. It is the most populous city in the county, the List of municipalities in California, 11th-most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population, 60th-most populous city in the United States. Stockton's population in 2020 was 320,804. It was named an All-America City Award, All-America City in 1999, 2004, 2015, and again in 2017 and 2018. The city is located on the San Joaquin River in the northern San Joaquin Valley. It lies at the southeastern corner of a Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, large inland river delta that isolates it from other nearby cities such as Sacramento and those of the San Francisco Bay Area. Stockton was founded by Charles Maria Weber in 1849 after he acquired Rancho Campo de los Franceses. The city is named after Robert F. Stockton, and it was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CalArts
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art school in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both the visual and performing arts. It offers Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. The school was first envisioned by many benefactors in the early 1960s including Nelbert Chouinard, Walt Disney, Lulu Von Hagen, and Thornton Ladd. History CalArts was originally formed in 1961, as a merger of the Chouinard Art Institute (founded 1921) and the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music (founded 1883). Both of the formerly existing institutions were going through financial difficulties, and the founder of the Art Institute, Nelbert Chouinard, was terminally ill. Walt Disney was longtime friends with both Chouinard and Lulu May Von Hagen, the chair of the Conservatory, and discovered and trained m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Creeper (album)
''Virginia Creeper'' is the third album by American singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips, released on February 24, 2004. Critical reception ''Virginia Creeper'' was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 77, based on 14 reviews. Track listing Personnel Musicians * Grant-Lee Phillips – primary artist, piano, producer * Richard Dodd – cello * Danny Frankel – percussion * Eric Gorfain – violin * Sheldon Gomberg – bass * Sebastian Steinberg – bass * Jon Brion – ukulele * Bill "Luigi" Bonk – accordion * Greg Leisz – dobro, mandolin * Leah Katz – viola * Cindy Wasserman – vocals * Zac Rae – keyboard Production * Gavin Lurssen Gavin Lurssen is an American mastering engineer. He owns Lurssen Mastering in Hollywood, California. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobilize (Grant-Lee Phillips Album)
''Mobilize'' is the second album by Grant-Lee Phillips Grant-Lee Phillips (born Bryan G. Phillips; September 1, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He led the group Grant Lee Buffalo in the 1990s, afterwards launching a solo career. He features as the town troubadou ... after the internet release of '' Ladies Love Oracle''. It was released to high critical acclaim, reviews often focusing on the successful implementation of both electronic textures and traditional instruments. Phillips himself played every instrument during recording and used a drum machine for percussion in every track except for "Hugo's Theme" and "Sunday Best" where other musicians contributed. Track listing All tracks composed by Grant-Lee Phillips #"See America" 5:08 #"Humankind" 3:09 #"Love's a Mystery" 4:09 #"Sadness Soot" 4:20 #"We All Get a Taste" 3:54 #"Spring Released" 3:15 #"Lazily Drowning" 4:18 #"Lik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladies Love Oracle (album)
''Ladies' Love Oracle'' is the first solo album by the American musician Grant-Lee Phillips, released in 2000. Critical reception ''Rolling Stone ''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. The magazine was first known fo ...'' noted "Phillips' spiderly weave of cowboy strum and ghost-house ivories and the natural sigh of his voice." Track listing All tracks composed by Grant-Lee Phillips #"You're a Pony"—2:05 #"Heavenly"—2:24 #"Squint"—3:36 #"Don't Look Down"—4:40 #"Flamin' Shoe"—3:53 #"Folding"—3:32 #"Lonesome Serenade"—3:24 #"Nothin' Is For Sure"—4:30 #"St. Expedite"—3:00 #"Snowflakes"—5:40 ''(found only on 2002 re-release of the album)'' References Grant-Lee Phillips albums 2000 debut albums {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South By Southwest
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. It began in 1987 and has continued growing in both scope and size every year. In 2017, the conference lasted for 10 days with the interactive track lasting for five days, music for seven days, and film for nine days. There was no in-person event in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin, Texas, COVID-19 pandemic in Austin; in both years there was a smaller online event instead. SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC, which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. In addition to SXSW, the company runs the conference SXSW EDU and the SXSW Sydney festival (from 2023, in Sydney, Australia) and co-runs North by Northeast in Toronto. Beginning in June 2025, the inaugural South by Southwest London, SXSW London will also take place. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jubilee (Grant Lee Buffalo Album)
''Jubilee'' is the fourth and final studio album by Grant Lee Buffalo, released in 1998. The single "Truly, Truly" received significant radio airplay, appearing on ''Billboards Modern Rock chart for 13 weeks, peaking at #11. According to Grant Lee Phillips, the album may have suffered from high expectations at the label. :"The celebrational spirit of ''Jubilee'' actually brought a renewed optimism to me personally. The album was well received and understandably the expectations at the label were high, probably too high. Although the highly refined ''Jubilee'' had brought the band considerable success at radio with "Truly, Truly", a shift within the industry was well underway. The label's constant nagging about "Call-out Response" was both a new term and a bewildering concept to our ears. The basic strategy: a radio station arranges to call up a listener who is asked to consume about 30 songs over the phone, perhaps 20 seconds of each. From this remote encounter, the listener will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copperopolis (album)
''Copperopolis'' is the third studio album by alternative rock band Grant Lee Buffalo. It was released in 1996 on Slash Records. Production The album was produced by bass player Paul Kimble. It was recorded in six weeks. All songs were written by Grant Lee Phillips Critical reception '' No Depression'' wrote that "the sound is lush and more beautiful than ever." ''Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who, Dave Schulps, and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference ...'' wrote that "every song is a miniature epic" and that "the record confirms Phillips as a pop auteur." ''The Rough Guide to Rock'' called the album "triumphant," writing that it introduced "a richer, more sweeping sound." Track listing All tracks composed by Grant Lee Phillips #"Homespun" #"The Bridge" #"Arousing Thunder" #"Even the Oxen" #"Crackdown" #"Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mighty Joe Moon
''Mighty Joe Moon'' is the second studio album by American rock band Grant Lee Buffalo, released in 1994 by Slash Records and Reprise Records. Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from liner notes. * Grant Lee Phillips – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, dobro, mandolin, harmonica * Paul Kimble – bass, piano, pump organ, electric organ, vocals * Joey Peters – drum set, tumbuk, tambourine, tablas, maracas, marimba, shakers, acquired hunks of metal * Greg Adamson – cello on "Mockingbirds" * Greg Leisz Gregory Brian Leisz ( ; born September 18, 1949) is an American musician. He is a songwriter, recording artist, and producer. He plays guitar, dobro, mandolin, banjo, lap steel and pedal steel guitar. Biography Leisz grew up in the garage ba ... – pedal steel guitar on "Lady Godiva and Me" Charts References 1994 albums Grant Lee Buffalo albums {{1990s-alt-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760. It has 500,000 online subscribers, the fifth-largest among U.S. newspapers. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won over 40 Pulitzer Prizes since its founding. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to Trade union, labor unions, the latter of which led to the Los Angeles Times bombing, bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. As with other regional newspapers in California and the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Stipe
John Michael Stipe (; born January 4, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter and artist, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the alternative rock band R.E.M. Stipe was born in Metro Atlanta in January 1960. Due to his father's military commission, his family moved constantly, with Stipe spending part of his childhood in West Germany before finishing high school in suburban St. Louis, St Louis. Stipe attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, Athens, where he became involved in the local college rock and jangle pop scene. He formed R.E.M. after meeting his bandmates at the university and soon dropped out to pursue music with them. The band issued its debut single, "Radio Free Europe (Hib-Tone version), Radio Free Europe," and subsequently signed to I.R.S. Records, meeting wide acclaim and soon great commercial success. Possessing a distinctive voice, Stipe has been noted for the "mumbling" style of his early career. Since the mid-1980s, Stipe has sung in "wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
