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	Sam Phillips (singer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leslie Phillips, aka Sam Phillips, (born January 28, 1962) is an American singer and a songwriter.
		Phillips, who was born in Glendale, California, began her musical career as a vocalist in the early 1980s, singing background parts for Mark Heard, Randy Stonehill and other artists.
		Sam was signed to the label under her real name, and as Cyndi Lauper was popular at the time, Myrrh insisted on promoting her as "the Christian Cyndi Lauper." Sam was never comfortable with this image, and it was a bone of contention between her and the label.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sam_Phillips_(singer) (778 words)

	Sam Phillips tribute Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sam Phillips was a key cog in the creation of rock and roll as we know it and had his only credit been the recording of Jackie Brenston's "Rocket 88," his place in R&R history would have been ensured.
		Sam Phillips, who died in Memphis, Tennessee, on Wednesday, July 30, 2003, aged 80, was a vital figure in the emergence of rock and roll as the dominant form of popular music.
		Sam Phillips, the alchemist responsible for this potent brew, died of respiratory failure in his beloved Memphis on July 30 at the age of 80.
	www.rockabillyhall.com /samtribute.html (8653 words)

	Sam Phillips
		Already, Phillips' talent as a producer was evident in how he captured primal electric blues with a rawer, more Southern feel than much blues being cut in bigger urban centers, though not at the expense of sterling performances and strong song selection.
		Phillips' role in these records was important - he had a good eye for top-notch regional talent, and he was good at funneling their unpolished talents into solid studio performances.
		Phillips has since noted, with much validity, that he badly needed to raise capital for Sun ($35,000 meant much more in 1955 than it does now), both to keep it in business and to nurture a growing artist roster.
	www.rockabillyhall.com /SamPhillips1.html (4689 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Sam Phillips
		Sam Phillips, who died in Memphis, Tennessee, on Wednesday aged 80, was a vital figure in the emergence of rock and roll as the dominant form of popular music.
		He found Sam a job with a local radio station; among his tasks was the job of supervising the broadcast of dance bands from the roof garden of the Peabody Hotel.
		Phillips aimed to capture the spontaneous feel of the music which emanated from his tiny 20ft sq studio.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/08/01/db0102.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/08/01/ixportal.html (1045 words)

	Under The Rock
		Phillips and her accompanying musicians play sparsely, gingerly even, giving breathing room for her melodies — equally informed, it seems, by 1930s cabaret and 1960s folk and pop.
		To that end, Phillips is determined to "make room for the listener." She says, "I want the listener to come in and be able to think their thoughts and have a whole scenario in their own minds that's completely different from mine.
		Phillips' songs are open to interpretation; there are distinct pleasures in hearing music that's left unresolved, as life is. At times, it seems as if Phillips is writing in code — it's not obvious, for example, what a song title like "Red Silk #5" precisely represents.
	citypaper.net /articles/2004-06-17/music5.shtml (820 words)

	Sam Phillips Concert Review and Interview
		I doubt that half the people in the audience knew who Sam was before she hit the stage, and probably not one in ten recognized the significance of T-Bone (who is one of the hottest producers in the business).
		Sam met T-Bone while she was recording her first record for Virgin; she says the chemistry between them was immediate, although she acknowledges that T-Bone has a "crazy side." She takes her marriage seriously, but admits that the long periods of separation (they do not always tour or work together) can be difficult.
		Although Sam felt that the moshers during her set (and, honestly, anybody who moshes during a Sam Phillips gig is a moron) were "cute -- kind of like gypsy moshers," other members of the audience didn't agree.
	www.cdshakedown.com /061594.htm (974 words)

	Sam Phillips. Biography.
		On A Boot and a Shoe, Sam composes her songs with the terseness of an exceptionally smart screenwriter, one whose words alone are as powerful as any picture.
		Sam plays guitar throughout, and is accompanied on several tracks by the Los Angeles-based Section Quartet.
		Sam has more or less done exactly what she wanted over the course of seven albums produced by T Bone Burnett, including the Grammy-nominated Martinis and Bikinis (1994).
	samphillipsmusic.com /bio.html (936 words)

	Sam Phillips News
		It the 15 years since singer-songwriter Sam Phillips released "The Indescribable Wow," her pop career has ranged from the curious to the downright odd.
		Sam Phillips is a new breed of torch singer with her own distinctive style.
		NPR.org, February 5, 2005 When Leslie Phillips, a young Christian music singer from Calif., started becoming disillusioned with her industry, she switched to her childhood nickname Sam and took on a whole new...
	www.topix.net /who/sam-phillips (185 words)

	Reviews of Sam Phillips \| Martinis and Bikinis and Arbitron Radio Ratings (Winter 1993 Quarter)
		Sam has a gig scheduled for June 7th at a venue to be announced; be sure to catch this talented and engaging lady when she appears in Fresno.
		Phillips' focus on society and interpersonal relationships is the result of her continuing growth as an artist and a person.
		Phillips' music is smart, challenging pop that is demanding of both herself and her audience.
	www.cdshakedown.com /051194.htm (750 words)

	VH1.com : Sam Phillips : Biography
		Born in 1962, Phillips was raised in Glendale, California.
		Within the limited framework of the Christian rock community, Phillips became a star; her records, which also included 1984's Dancing With Danger and 1985's Black and White in a Grey World, regularly sold upwards of 200,000 copies, and she was a tremendous live draw while touring churches and coffeehouses.
		Phillips and Burnett married prior to the release of 1991's darker, more experimental Cruel Inventions, which featured a guest appearance from Elvis Costello.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/phillips_sam_singer_/bio.jhtml (563 words)

	Salon Directory
		Sam Phillips on Christian music and classic porn, working with T-Bone and her quietly successful comeback release.
		Phillips seems more than happy to sit along the sidelines these days, still shaky about her place in the business of music after a disastrous, though critically acclaimed, five-album run with Virgin in the '90s.
		Sam Phillips is one of those mysteriously obscure talents who everyone has heard, though mostly without realizing it.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/music/feature/2002/06/12/phillips/index.html (833 words)

	Sam Phillips
		Phillips always denied that he regretted the RCA deal, and Scotty Moore said that "the only reason he sold Elvis was to get the capital to produce the others.
		Phillips was born in Florence, Alabama, the youngest of eight children of tenant farmers.
		A new label, Phillips International, was started with Sam's two sons, and new studios were built in Memphis and Nashville.
	www.spectropop.com /remembers/SPobit.htm (907 words)

	Las Vegas Mercury: Sam Phillips: Booting down
		Phillips had tinkered in some form with atmospherics, layers and technological trickery on most of her '90s albums, the most acclaimed of which was the 1994, genre-blurring Martinis and Bikinis.
		She refers to herself as a torch singer, but not the melodramatic sort you envision behind a piano.
		The role of a torch singer, like her lyrics, carries multiple connotations and perspectives, which widens the entry point for the listener.
	www.lasvegasmercury.com /2004/MERC-Aug-26-Thu-2004/24613209.html (623 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Sam Phillips
		In the late '80s, fine-voiced singer/songwriter Leslie Phillips turned her back on a successful career as a contemporary Christian artist in order to make more personally fulfilling music under her historically resonant nickname, Sam.
		Phillips undoubtedly reached a new audience by providing music for the TV show The Gilmore Girls —; her "la la las" between scene changes became a factor in the show’s character and charm.
		Phillips plays more guitar than ever; while conceding that she’s not especially proficient, she likes the feel her playing gives her music, and it’s hard to argue.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=sam_phillips (705 words)

	George Graham Reviews Sam Phillips' "Fan Dance"
		The name Sam Phillips for those of a certain generation, means the legendary record producer and founder of Sun Records in Memphis.
		But there is a Sam Phillips who is a Grammy-nominated West-Coast singer-songwriter with a surprisingly lengthy career, and who has just released her intriguing new fifth pop CD called Fan Dance.
		Phillips is in excellent form, and the musical backing along with the production by her husband T Bone Burnett brings together some unexpected combinations of sounds, sometimes simultaneously hinting at Beatles-era pop, old cabaret music from the 1930s, and film noir or the novels of Raymond Chandler.
	georgegraham.com /reviews/samphil.html (1182 words)

	Sam Phillips - OverTheRhine.COM -- Orchard
		Sam: (she delayed for a second and then smiled) We are for now.
		When she returned as Sam Phillips with The Indescribable Wow, it was liberation, it was the freedom and exhilaration of singing about human things, human relationships, not the prescribed preach-and-praise of Christian music.
		Fan Dance was Sam's move to the monastery of quiet poetry, a spooky minimalist affair about finding her identity in her departure from logic, her departure from dogma, her constant pursuit of the elusive truth, the God who will not be boxed in.
	www.overtherhine.com /orchard/index.php?showtopic=1329 (2814 words)

	USATODAY.com - Rock 'n' roll pioneer Sam Phillips dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Phillips founded Sun Records in Memphis in 1952 and helped launch the career of Presley, then a young singer who had moved from Tupelo, Miss.
		Phillips was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.
		Phillips began in music as a radio station engineer and later as a disc jockey.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2003-07-30-sam-obit_x.htm (695 words)

	Sam Phillips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sam Phillipsâ new album, A Boot and a Shoe is, like her 2001 Nonesuch debut Fan Dance, fiercely intimate in atmosphere and seriously stripped down in arrangementâ”not so much unplugged as beautifully unvarnished.
		Although Sam has long been admired for her coolly modern take on Beatlesesque songwriting and studio craft, she decided to move away from elaborate pop production and 21st century technological upgrades with Fan Dance.
		Phillips has more or less done exactly what she wanted over the course of seven albums produced by T Bone Burnett, including the Grammy-nominated Martinis and Bikinis (1994).
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_5452_pf.html (607 words)

	Rolling Stone : Sam Phillips: Martinis and Bikinis : Music Reviews
		Martinis and Bikinis (produced by Phillips' husband, T-Bone Burnett) is her most vibrant release in a string of already remarkable records, notably Cruel Inventions (1991) and The Indescribable Wow (1988).
		On the aggravated psychedelia of "Same Rain," Phillips' take is wise and weary ("I knew a man, a refugee, survival was his art/All that he held valuable he carried in his heart").
		Sam Phillips is a rarity – an artist who seduces and disturbs.
	www.rollingstone.com /artists/samphillips/albums/album/179933 (398 words)

	Rolling Stone : Sam Phillips Laces Up "Boot"
		The record was produced, as all of her recent recordings have been, by husband T Bone Burnett, who placed Phillips' dusty, expressive voice amid spare arrangements that included intricate guitar playing by Mark Ribot along with cellos and glimmers of other strings.
		Phillips has also found some new success outside of record making, as she's peppered episodes of The Gilmore Girls with her recognizable "la la la"-based music.
		Phillips is planning to take the album out for some dates summer where she will perform both Boot and Fan Dance in their entirety.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5937233/sam_phillips_laces_up_boot (543 words)

	Biography for Sam Phillips (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sam Phillips began her entertainment career as a Contemporary Christian Music singer, where she made a number of albums under the name "Leslie Phillips".
		She reportedly was nicknamed Sam from the time she was a child, but recorded under the name Leslie on Word Records because record company executives did not find the name Sam acceptable for a woman.
		Apparently, her husband T-Bone encouraged her to Sam on her subsequent secular releases, thinking it was an interesting touch since Sam Phillips was also (I think) the name of the man who discovered Elvis Presley.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0680767/bio (568 words)

	Blog of Death: Sam Phillips
		Phillips' first job in the music industry was as a radio engineer and disc jockey for stations in Decatur, Ala., and Nashville, Tenn. He settled in Memphis in 1952 and founded Sun Records.
		Phillips sold Presley's contract in 1955 to RCA for $35,000, and focused his attention on producing other artists, including Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Conway Twitty.
		In his later years, Phillips was inducted into the Rock and Roll and Country Music Halls of Fame.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000204.html (272 words)

	TIME Special Advertising Feature: Sam Phillips, Creators at Carnegie
		Los Angeles singer, songwriter and guitar player Sam Phillips composes her songs with the terseness of a smart screenwriter.
		Phillips describes herself now as a torch singer, albeit a rather non-traditional one, since she's more inclined toward brooding than belting.
		In addition to her records, Phillips has contributed music to a number of major films and television shows.
	www.time.com /time/2005/carnegie/phillips.html (409 words)

	Cornerstone Magazine :: Sam Phillips: The Revolution Started in Memphis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sam Phillips nodded and said politely that he was an “interesting” singer.
		Phillips began in music as a radio station engineer and later as a disc jockey at stations in Alabama and Nashville before moving to Memphis.
		Phillips died knowing he was leaving a huge legacy—one that began in the South, as fueled by fl musicians, and later finding root in the hearts of the youth in the 1950s.
	www.cornerstonemag.com /pages/show_page.asp?577 (967 words)

	Looking Closer Interview with Sam Phillips - September 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Someday, I would interview my hero--Sam Phillips, the woman whose songwriting had inspired me most, carried me through the toughest hours in my life, and whose example had led me to a greater appreciation of art, since I first heard her music in 1983.
		Furthermore, Phillips gave voice to her pain with the use of metaphors that challenged you to think about ideas that were larger than the songs themselves.
		I counted fifteen attempts to connect with Sam Phillips on the morning we were supposed to speak.
	promontoryartists.org /lookingcloser/samphillipsinterviewSept2004.htm (5382 words)

	NewBeats.com: Sam Phillips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For those unfamiliar with Sam Phillips (not to be confused with the Sun Records founder), she has recorded five studio records after a stint of being a Christian gospel singer.
		Phillips is currently riding high on the critical acclaim of her latest album Fan Dance, a modest-sounding, stripped down record compared to her previous albums.
		Phillips singing was very distinctive in her unmistakable deadpan and yearning way.
	www.newbeats.com /samphillipslive.html (545 words)

	The Promise Live: A Little Sam Phillips at Largo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sam likes to call herself a torch singer these days, and who can argue with her.
		Okay, Sam is always stunning (especially in Black, which she loves to wear onstage), but this was special.
		It was the jazz side of Sam, and although they are the same songs she plays with the band, they felt so different.
	thepromiselive.blogspot.com /2005/06/little-sam-phillips-at-largo.html (632 words)

	Scotty Moore - Sam Phillips
		The difference between Tom Parker and Sam Phillips was the difference between a colorful businessman and a visionary.
		Phillips notes that Presley has a good feel for ballads and should be invited back.
		Phillips' sons run the family studio, the Sam Phillips Recording Service, and a music publishing company in Nashville.
	www.scottymoore.net /sam.html (928 words)

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