Member Since: 18/05/2008
Band Website: www.katephillipsmusic.com
Band Members: Pretty much everything you hear was my producer, Jay Pinto. I played some piano and sang most bgv's (Jay the rest), had a couple of guest guitarists (Stephen Fletcher on 2 tunes, Bryan Rust on one), but Jay played or programmed everything else. I play piano when I play live, it's more unplugged but people seem to love it!..
Influences: Over the Rhine
Sam Phillips
Casey Chambers
Peter Himmelman
Mark Heard
Tori Amos
Alannis Morisette
early Elton John
Damien Rice
Joan Osborne
Tracy Chapman
Emmy Lou Harris
Crowded House/Finn Bros
Joe Jackson
Rickie Lee Jones
Buddy and Julie Miller
Aaron Sprinkle
Sarah MacLachlan
Kate Bush
Shawn Colvin
U2
Sounds Like: People tell me I remind them of Vonda Shepard, Sarah MacLachlan, "Shawn Colvin with a piano," Over the Rhine's Karin Bergquist, Sheryl Crow and Joni Mitchell (not sure why Joni, I don't think I sound a thing like her, but I get that comment on my live shows occasionally.)
I have sent them all checks.
One of my fav songs (that I wrote):
I ONLY KNOW
I am looking for my life on the horizon
While I march around the walls of Jericho
I am searching for my soul within the garden
Finding long-forgotten treasures as I go
I am burning every bridge that I cross over
I am writing every chapter with my blood
Rearranging time and fate within the matrix
I’m assembling the ark before the flood
I won’t forget where I have been
But I won’t walk that road again
I only know where I must go
I only know
Like a baseball diamond hidden in the cornfield
If I plant a garden will the harvest come?
Will my doubting heart become a true believer
When I dream I am the person I become
I am following my future to the red shore
I am holding out my rod before the sea
If God makes a way for losers and for dreamers
He will surely take care of a fool like me
I won’t forget where I have been…
Never thought that I would watch for signs and wonders
I’m looking to the sky and listening for the thunder
I am gath’ring two by two under a blue sky
I look crazy to my neighbors and my friends
When the storms refuse to leave come it won't be easy
But I know that I will see the sun again
I won’t forget where I have been…
Kate Phillips, ©2008
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Record Label: Unsigned