Sam Phillips - A Boot and a Shoe

Sam Phillips took a deliberate detour from the sparkly neo-psychedelic pop of her best-known work on her 2001 album, Fan Dance, which stripped her songs and their accompaniment to their bare framework and reveled in the beauty that lay within. Phillips and her producer and collaborator, T-bone Burnett, have followed much the same course with 2004's A Boot And A Shoe, which in many ways sounds like Fan Dance, Pt. 2; featuring a number of the same musicians (including guitarist Marc Ribot and percussionists Carla Azar and Jim Keltner) A Boot And A Shoe was recorded and mixed in the same spare, open manner, reveling in the acoustics of the rooms and the subtle creaks of aging instruments. Read More