LITTLE MOON/VINYLE ROUGE BOURGOGNE

Description

With his golden voice and pen dipped in silver, Grant-Lee Phillips presents another significant milestone in a career overflowing with talent. Little Moon is track after track of classic American music deeply rooted—rock and folk swirl under clouds of cinematic strings for an introduction to the art of timeless melody. His legendary well of melody is on full display on Little Moon, with even the most singable piano ballad standing comfortably on a thick, powerful trunk ('Older Now'). Long regarded as one of Los Angeles' most sought-after songwriters, Grant-Lee approaches Little Moon with positive inspirations, including the birth of his daughter Violet ('Violet') and a creative calm that saw the songs rise organically through previous live collaborations with drummer Jay Bellerose, producer bassist Paul Bryan, and keyboardist Jamie Edwards. Captured live in the studio with limited overdubs, the album vividly conveys the sunny day feeling of the songs and that ever-elusive groove in the moment of a finely tuned band working just as finely crafted. Upon the release of Little Moon in 2009, American Songwriter named it "His strongest album to date."