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Page 4 • Friday, April 16, 1999
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BY AMY DAUGHERTY
The Battalion
W hen Joni Mitchell needed to brush up
on her guitar chords in the ’60s or The
Beatles needed a background vocalist
for their Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
album and George Harrison wanted sitar
lessons, all heads turned towards Shawn
Phillips.
Phillips will soon be turning heads again
when he brings his music to Bryan-College Sta
tion this weekend.
With an eclectic music style ranging from
solo guitar performances to symphonic over
tures, it seems hard to believe that someone
with a lifetime of recording experience could
still be relatively unknown.
What singer/songwriter Shawn Phillips
lacks in recognition he makes up for through
the success of his albums.
Although Texas native Phillips has spent
three decades as a recording artist and has 17
albums under his belt, he has yet to become a
household name.
Phillips discovered his musical talent at age
six when he picked up his first guitar and even
tually became a touring musician, spending
the majority of his time on the road with his
journalist/novelist father.
His father’s work landed the pair in the
most diverse of locations, including the Canary
Islands and Germany.
They also took up residency in every state
in the United States.
It was through these travels that Phillips had
the opportunity to interact with a few soon-to-
be popular American artists and began devel
oping his folk music. This eventually brought
Phillips to England, where he was signed with
Columbia Records.
At age 20, Phillips recorded his first folk al
bum, I’m a Loner, which met with little en
thusiasm.
The following year, his second album,
Shawn, was released. The record sold fewer
than 10,000 copies.
Columbia dropped Phillips from their label.
He spent the next six years attempting to find
himself.
“You don’t start off wanting to be a
singer/songwriter, you develop into one as you
evolve,” Phillips said in an interview with his
manager. “You sing in the clubs or wherever
you can, and at some point, if you are using
your brain, you have a tendency to want to ex
press yourself rather than repeat what some
body else thinks.”
Phillips soon ended up penniless in Italy. By
a stroke of good luck, his demo tapes finally
caught the attention of Jonathon Weston, a
producer from England who was himself rela
tively new in the business.
It was Weston who convinced A&M
Records’ president Jerry Moss to consider
some of Phillips’ music for release, and Moss
later extended Phillips an offer he could not
refuse.
Over the course of the next 10 years, Phillips
recorded nine albums with A&M Records and
his first two anthologies were released.
Phillips remained in Italy for the next 20
years and said it never occurred to him that be
ing located so far away from the music scene
might be harmful to his career.
“Really, I did not make this decision (to stay
in Italy],” Phillips said. “It was made for me by
the English government. When 1 moved to
Positano [Italy], I didn’t have a career in the
U.S. yet.
“When the career started happening, how
ever, it never crossed my mindata
tential damage to me. 1 figuredttil
Jonathon (Weston], or someone«i
on my behalf in the U.S., they
top ot the ilii neeso
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went on to make records with: (01 Mi>v '<
labels ovei the next several vea' -pervibe
ly tom-' the U.S. and (.'anadawiit^Bm o
the-ordinary music.
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