Grant-Lee Phillips at FRETS
Grant-Lee Phillips plays FRETS on Friday 20th January at the Strathaven Hotel to promote his current album, All That You Can Dream!
About Grant-Lee Phillips at FRETS
In early 2021 Phillips realized any potential touring options were still on hold for the foreseeable future, he started to write and record a new solo album, All That You Can Dream, at his Nashville home. “I found respite in the process when I could do little else,” he says. “It became a sort of meditation on this time in my life and the events that we’ve collectively experience.
The album is introspective, anchored by Phillips’ empathetic voice and rich acoustic guitar. The album’s lyrics attempt to make sense of an uncertain, anxiety-riddled time over the past few years, while coming to terms with the idea that once-unshakeable things now seem fragile or fallible. “In terms of subject matter, I found that the circumstances of being off the road, and left to reflect on what this time feels like, produced a different kind of song,” Phillips says. “I wasn’t entirely certain—and to be honest, I’m still not altogether certain—when I get to take these songs on the road. In some ways, that freed me up to write and record the kind of song that was personal and executed as though it were for an audience of myself alone. That’s freeing.”
Grant-Lee came to prominence in the early 1990s as vocalist and writer of Grant Lee Buffalo. Their debut LP, Fuzzy, was released upon which Michael Stipe of R.E.M. declared it “the best album of the year hands down”. In 1995 Grant-Lee Phillips was named the critics’ choice for Best Male Vocalist of 1995.
Grant-Lee has released 11 solo albums since 2000, his concert at FRETS will be something else.
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