Sam Phillips’ A Boot and a Shoe is, like her 2001 Nonesuch debut Fan Dance, fiercely intimate in atmosphere and seriously stripped down in arrangement—not so much unplugged as beautifully unvarnished. Although Sam has long been admired for her coolly modern take on Beatles-esque songwriting and studio craft, she decided to move away from elaborate pop production and 21st century technological upgrades with Fan Dance. Since then, she has stuck to this road less traveled.
“I think the human is all that’s left in record production,” Sam explains....
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