Title: Martinis and Bikinis
Artist: Phillips, Sam
Label: Omnivore Recordings
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 816651011612
Genre: Rock

Expanded reissue includes four bonus tracks. With Martinis & Bikinis, Sam Phillips has revitalized the "Beatlesque" category with some substantial songwriting and a woman's voice, which turns the whole sound upside down. The Beatles hardly exhausted the possibilities of their late-'60s sound, and Phillips has the hooks and aphorisms to give that sound a second lease on life. Phillips has rewritten two old Beatles songs into "Strawberry Road" and "Same Rain"; she has even recorded a John Lennon composition, "Gimme Some Truth." Phillips's husband, T-Bone Burnett, cowrote two of the songs and produced all 13, and he adds the Lennonesque touches of guitars recorded backward and sweet harmonized vocals pitted against distorted guitars. But none of this would matter if the songs weren't so good.

Tracks:
1.1 Love and Kisses
1.2 Signposts
1.3 Same Reain
1.4 Baby I Can't Please You
1.5 Circle of Fire
1.6 Strawberry Road
1.7 When I Fall
1.8 Same Changes
1.9 Black Sky
1.10 Fighting with Fire
1.11 I Need Love
1.12 Wheel of the Broken Voice
1.13 Gimme Some Truth
1.14 I Need Love
1.15 Fighting with Fire [Remix]
1.16 Black Sky [Version 2] [Version]
1.17 Strawberry Road [2012 Version] [Version]

Phillips, Sam: Martinis and Bikinis

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