Does anyone care that there is a new Grant Lee Phillips album?

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I'm a fan, so I'm, curious, but that last solo album was a pretty big disappointment. Anyone heard the new one?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I was disappointed when I realized the title wasn't Vagina Creeper.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, that would have been cool. He could have had Akinyele on the bonus track and everything.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I love this guy's voice but his songwriting has disappointed me enough that I haven't bothered to check out his recent stuff.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't cared since Copperopolis, honestly (though "Truly, Truly" remains a great, great single).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

He was the only part of the Gilmore Girls that i could have done without.And i feel bad saying that about such a wonderful show. But if they could make me love Sally Struthers again, they should have made me love the town troubador as well. Although i did enjoy the show where there was someone else who wanted to take his spot as town troubador.That was pretty funny.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I only started caring again after I saw him do a really nice show with Robyn Hitchcock a couple of years ago. Also, I liked a couple of songs on the last album. His voice just seems to get better and better.

― danh, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

Revive!

I am usually wary of the singer/songwriter genre, but when somebody's got it they got it. Recently and at this very moment, I have been enjoying the current Grant Lee Phillips album, Virginia Creeper. Have I been hoodwinked into thinking it's good or is it actually so?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonus track: go to Club Largo's webpage to hear his cover of "Candy Says."

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

what's the address?

i haven't bought this new one because I didn't like the last two (and didn't care much for Jibillee, either) but I'm a huge GLB fan. How does this new one compare, Ken?

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.largo-la.com/largohome.html

Then click on "Audio-Video." WORK WARNING- link will play sound.

Hard to say. I never bought anything on him before, so I don't know. I think I used to confuse Grant Lee Buffalo with Buffalo Tom, who I didn't like. They don't have any connection, do they?

I did like his contribution to the MOJO Beatles thing, though.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Virginia Creeper's better than Ladies Love Oracle because the melodies are a little meatier, but the lack of production on both leaves them both far behind Mighty Joe Moon. His growing tendencies toward minimalism are frustrating to my ears.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Luckily I am not familiar with his previous work so I can enjoy this new one in ignorant bliss. But I understand why you would hesitate to buy it- at this stage in the game, if I am I fan of somebody's music and then my man "jumps the shark," he usually doesn't get a second chance.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I hear ya

You really oughta buy both Fuzzy and Mighty Joe Moon by GLB though - those albums were very important and great, at least to me.

But then, I kinda like Buffalo Tom, though in an arm's distance kinda way, too...

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I disagree mightily with Roger — I loved Mobilize. But I haven't, for some reason, been inclined to rush out and get this one...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

thirteen years pass...

He has a new one called Widdershins. Not a great title, but the record is sounding excellent on first listen. Grantheads will be happy.

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 25 February 2018 14:59 (seven years ago)

I love "Mobilize" because he uses different sounds and production techniques - one of those it-shouldn't-work-but-it-does albums. And the 1980s cover album is fun. But the rest of his solo catalog just never grabbed me.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 25 February 2018 18:57 (seven years ago)

five years pass...

I was walking through a local village recently and noticed a poster with Grant-Lee on it. I thought I was going mad when said poster was advertising a show in the local church. I still haven't quite got my head around it but he's playing up the road, in a church and I have tickets.

I'll admit that I'm a huge Grant Lee Buffalo fan but don't know much about his solo stuff. I've been slowly making my way through the catalogue. Love *Virginia Creeper* and enjoyed *Mobilize* without much sticking. Listening to *Walking in the Green Corn* today and it's stripped back to just Phillips and a guitar. It's gorgeous.

― Slays two. Found gassed. Thinks of cat. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 15:12 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Just to report that the show was gorgeous. Probably 60/70 people in the church; he played two sets, with bits of Buffalo stuff mixed in with solo songs.

Slightly shonky photo but should give a sense of what it was like.

https://i.imgur.com/PrKKuz6.jpg

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 2 October 2023 19:20 (two years ago)

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