Artist: sam phillips

Photo courtesy of sunrecords.comSam PhillipsOn this day in 1923, legendary producer, record executive, DJ and Sun Records/Sun Studios founder Sam Phillips was born to a pair of poor tenant farm

Groupies, this laugh is on you. Margaret Cho's video for "Baby I'm With the Band" (from her comedy music album "Cho Dependent") was made at this year's Bonnaroo, where she romped with rock luminaries too numerous to mention. (Check out the look on Brendan Benson's face at 1:15.) It's posted here not just because we need a Friday morning chuckle, but because Cho, along with singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips, is co-emceeing a big benefit show on Sunday at Largo. "A Concert to Benefit School Music Revival," hosted by the Section Quartet , will raise funds for [...]

Today, Sam Phillips delves into five of her songs, with discussions of the videos. Here I am playing my song "Taking Pictures" on one of my favorite episodes of The Gilmore Girls. Eric Gorfain, of the Section Quartet, is playing strohviolin on the street corner of Stars Hollow with me. Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore and their daughter also played in this episode, as well as Sparks and other special guests. Making the music for this show for seven years was a blast.

Today we are introducing our series, "Artist Directed", in which some of our favorite creative types across the cultural spectrum will take over Mixed Media for the day. Today we are introducing our new Mixed Media series, "Artist Directed", in which some of our favorite creative types across the cultural spectrum will share with you some of their favorites and inspirations, as well as discuss highlights of their own works. The words and media choices all belong to the artist. We are lucky to have the talented Sam Phillips launching this new series in grand fashion with a two-day [...]

Sam Phillips - Magic For Everybody

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Phillips manages to create a conflicting compilation album admired for the beauty of the music -- but with a disappointing physical packaging. What Sam Phillips did with Long Play was open up the possibilities for rethinking the standardization of album production and consumption. Not bound by physicalities, Phillips created a virtual world which mapped out the creative progression of her artistic output. She let the listener in. Instead of keeping her fans at an arms length, as is the unintended outcome of more traditional album releases, she invited them to join in on the fun - to...

Sam Phillips: [ How To Quit ]

• Sam Phillips - How to Quit

Anyone who's basked in the audio glow of Sam Phillips accepts or even embraces her idiosyncrasies: as on Magic For Everybody , when she advises, "Don't let perfect" (instead of "perfection") make you blind/To this beautiful world/Oh, oh, oh, don't erase your crooked lines/Take your mistakes and come with me!" Since Phillips apparently seeded several acres of her garden with the Beatles circa Rubber Soul , we're also used to her starting a vocal line in a low, near-growl (kind of like John Lennon), as on Broken [...]

Sam Phillips: [ I Need Love ] some required

• Sam Phillips - I Need Love

Sam Phillips set up a subscription service for her fans to get entire EPs of new music before she had anything even written. Not only did she survive, but she's produced some of most daring music of her career, and tells PopMatters all about it ... Sam Phillips has never been as prolific in her writing and recording than she has in the last year and a half. Near the end of 2009 she announced a musical installation project that allowed subscribers to fork of $52 in order to receive five brand-new EPs (of approximately five to eight songs [...]

Sam Phillips - Lever Pulled Down

Welcome back to a new installment of the Pop Candy podcast! Once again, I've hand-picked my favorite new songs for you guys so you have something ...

Sam Phillips - Broken Circle

Welcome back to a new installment of the Pop Candy podcast! Once again, I've hand-picked my favorite new songs for you guys so you have something ...

Sam Phillips - Throw Yourself Away (via Direct Current )

Sam Phillips - When I'm A Camera (via Direct Current )

Sam Phillips - Solid State (Songs From The Long Play) Release Date: June 7, 2011 Label: s/r

Sam Phillips - Her major label deal and marriage to T-Bone Burnett are now a few years behind her, but no matter. The eclectic and quirkily winsome songwriter returns with a wonderful 13-track album culled from her prolific yearlong "Long Play" project consisting of five self-produced EP's and one full-length (whew) // Release : Solid State (June 7) // Sounds like : despite the prodigious output of Long Play, the quality (and stylistic diversity) of Solid State reconfirms Phillips reputation as both an imaginative and risk-taking writer who can also build [...]

• Sam Phillips - Throw Yourself Away
• Sam Phillips - When I'm A Camera

I guess Crazy Heart just wasn't enough for Jeff Bridges . That's right, El Duderino has decided to turn his Oscar-winning performance into a full-fledged musical career - or at least an album featuring the indellible Midas touch of T Bone Burnett . Bridges has even signed a deal with Blue Note for the album, which will include guest appearances by folks like Roseanne Cash and Sam Phillips . His Dudeness is also hopeful that [...]