A Boot and a Shoe

Product Description
On A Boot And A Shoe Sam Phillips fully realizes the sound she began exploring on her acclaimed Nonesuch debut, Fan Dance. The new music is simple while sophisticated, rich but economical, deriving much of its power from restraint and subtlety. Produced by T-Bone Burnett, the record's 13 songs unfold with the intimacy and organic coherence of a live show.

A Boot and a Shoe,Sam Phillips,Nonesuch,Adult Alternative Pop/Rock,Pop,Pop/Rock,Rock,Rock/Pop,Singer/Songwriter,United States of America

Average customer rating:

A brilliant album
A boot and a shoe but not wrong-footed - 4.5 stars
Leslie and early Sam was better!
Overated
Hard to catagorize

A Boot and a Shoe
Sam Phillips
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Pop | Styles | Music

Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music

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Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music

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Christian Alternative | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0001LJC66
Release Date: 2004-04-27

Tracks:

How To Quit
All Night
I Dreamed I Stopped Dreaming
Open The World
Red Silk 5
Reflecting Light
Infiltration
Drawman
I Wanted To Be Alone
Love Changes Everything
If I Could Write
Hole In My Pocket
One Day Late

Album Description

On A Boot And A Shoe Sam Phillips fully realizes the sound she began exploring on her acclaimed Nonesuch debut, Fan Dance. The new music is simple while sophisticated, rich but economical, deriving much of its power from restraint and subtlety. Produced by T-Bone Burnett, the record's 13 songs unfold with the intimacy and organic coherence of a live show.

Customer Reviews:

A brilliant album.......2007-04-29

This is not just a good album--it's a truly great album that can hold its own against the best pop/rock albums of the past four decades. By turns witty and heartbreaking, it's an album by an adult for adults, filled with beautiful melodies and insightful, soulful lyrics about life, love, and loss. The sparse, almost demo-like, arrangements, often supplemented by the creative use of string quartet, are perfect in creating a moody, intimate feel that manages to blend elements of (among other things) 1930s German expressionism with 1960s British pop. The result is stunning. "How to Quit," "All Night," "Open the World," "Reflecting Light," "I Wanted to Be Alone," "One Day Late"--they're all classics. In fact, there isn't a single weak song on the album. This is a collection of gems, the work of an appallingly underrated artist in peak form.

A boot and a shoe but not wrong-footed - 4.5 stars.......2007-02-22

Boy, there sure are some angry little reviewers out there!
Some people sure didn't like this which is fine, but they sound like they didn't like it for quite the wrong reasons. Sam is no longer Leslie and Leslie no longer Sam and vice versa (although they are the same).
This is a very good album, and Sam Phillips can write some really twisty and intruiging lines. The musianship is impeccable and has a late-night appeal to it. Marc Ribot is one of the more interesting and technically brilliant guitar players around. It doesn't posess the brighter, more uplifting moments that highlight "Fan Dance" but I suspect that it's probably reflective of her own troubled times. The song 'Help is coming' (one day late) is my favourite track. It sounds like a sad song but appears to be saying that help comes though not just when we expect it, or according to our deadline. Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes. Interestingly, T Bone Burnett has a song on his most recent album, The True False Identity, 'Shaken, Rattled and Rolled' that also sounds mournful but is really a song of awakening and renewal. There is light here, only not with giant billboards to point it out for us, to save us from having to think too much. Sam Phillips is always worth the effort.

Leslie and early Sam was better!.......2006-12-23

When Leslie became Sam, she had an interesting sound but since Fan Dance, I've been more and more turned off by this sparse dense sounding effort. It's really dull and not very inventive. Leslie Phillips was on the top of her game with Black & White & A Grey World, and The Turning. Beyond Saturday Night and Dancing with Danger were also quite good, but she hadnt matured yet as an artist (Christian or other). As Sam, The Indescribable Wow and Cruel Inventions were very interesting. She started going in this musical direction with The Turning, and continued to do so even more with these Sam Phillips releases. With Martinis & Bikinis, she hit the Beatlesque style on the head but it started to grow a little predictable. Then with Fan dance, I was very let down. Seems she is trying too hard to stay out of any catagory, or really hit an audience (only a few die hard fans that enjoy her down beat style). Boot & A Shoe is by far her most uninteresting CD (also very short in length), that really bored me. I can't see too many people buying her CD's if she stays sruck in this style, time to break out and reinvent!

Overated.......2006-12-22

This artist is way over rated. I guess if you know the right people, anyone can get a record contract. Her hubby is a famous producer and Sam once sang about Jesus so she uses her clout to make really bad music that nobody buys. A sad state of affairs!! Grade F-

Hard to catagorize.......2006-09-19

It just plain stinks. What kind of music is this? Never heard garbage like this before. Heard she was a gospel singer, who backslide, gave up the faith, and started to make alternative music? Well this aint alternative, this is garbage. What in the world are you people listening to? So some critics like this crap, and a handful of fans think she's great? Give me a break, this Sam/Leslie Phillips is a nobody. Her sales don't exist. Go back to Gospel music and try to make a comeback? Maybe someone will still be left who cares, cash in on the old name "Leslie". It's your only chance! Maybe at least you'll make a few bucks. I heard Sammy played a bar in town and about 50 people showed up (Columbus, OH). What a joke, Columbus is a big town and only 50 people came out? Wow, what a joke!

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