Biography

Sam Phillips started out as a big-haired Christian pop star in the mid-1980s, recording under her given name, Leslie Phillips. Her producer/future-husband T-Bone Burnett worked on her final Christian album in '87 and influenced her move towards a secular style. Re-christening herself "Sam," she starting turning out a series of quirky, stylish singer/songwriter albums, partly influenced by '60s baroque-pop sounds. Over time, her vision grew ever more appealingly idiosyncratic, but she reached her widest audience as the composer/performer of all the soundtrack music for popular TV show THE GILMORE GIRLS from 2000 to 2007.

Top Tracks

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• All Night

• Animals On Wheels

• Baby I Can't Please You

• Cruel Inventions

• Faster Pussycat To The Library!

• Holding On To The Earth

• I Can't Stop Crying

• I Don't Want To Fall In Love

• I Need Love

• If I Could Write

• Little Plastic Life

• Lying

• Raised On Promises

• Reflecting Light

• Remorse

• Same Rain

• Say What You Mean

• Signposts

• Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us

• Strawberry Road

• The Fan Dance

• Tripping Over Gravity

• Wasting My Time

• Watching Out Of This World

• Where Are You Taking Me

• Zero Zero Zero!

Discography

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• Solid State: Songs from the Long Play

  Littlebox Recordings

  2011

• Don't Do Anything

  Nonesuch

  2008

• A Boot and a Shoe

  Nonesuch

  2004

• Fan Dance

  Nonesuch

  2001

• Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop)

  Virgin

  1996

• Martinis & Bikinis

  Virgin

  1994

• Cruel Inventions

  Virgin

  1991

• The Indescribable Wow

  Virgin

  1988

• The Turning

  DCC Compact Classics

  1987