Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon

CD: 2-45714
Cassette: 4-45714

Grant Lee Buffalo (Album Release 9/20)

Mockingbird (30 second excerpt)

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1. Lone Star Song
2. Mockingbirds
3. It's The Life
4. Sing Along
5. Mighty Joe Moon
6. Demon Called Deception
7. Lady Godiva And Me
8. Drag
9. Last Days Of Tecumseh
10. Happiness
11. Honey Don't Think
12. Side By Side
13. Rock Of Ages

Personnel:

Grant Lee Phillips: vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, banjo, dobro, mandolin, harmonica

Paul Kimble: bass, piano, pump organ, electric organ, vocals

Joey Peters: drum set, tumbuk, tambourine, tablas, maracas, marimba, shakers, acquired hunks of metal

Guests:

Greg Adamson: cello

Greg Leisz: pedal steel

Slash Records

"These songs just up and walked out of the woods," says Grant Lee Phillips of his band's new album. "And I can't say whether they're vegetable or mineral, 'cause when you bite into one of these things, you might get a mouthful of bones or a mouthful of notes."

Last year, Fuzzy -one of the most critically raved-about albums of the year - introduced listeners to the cryptic anthems of L.A.'s Grant Lee Buffalo. Mighty Joe Moon, the group's second effort, is even better - a brilliant tangle of hypnotic strumming and lyrical images that explode like cherrybombs.

Grant Lee Phillips writes the songs, sings and plays various instruments with strings. Paul Kimble plays bass and keyboards, as well as producing. Joey Peters bangs on stuff. "If there are still hellhounds abroad in America," says England's Q magazine, "these boys sound like they have them on their tails."

Look for awesome live performances (their version of Elvis' "Burning Love" must be experienced to be believed) to expand Grant Lee Buffalo's audience dramatically this year. [We hear that the band will probably be doing shows next year with a very popular group who haven't toured in five years and whose new album is a monster. You figure it out.]

Discography:

Fuzzy (4/2-45217)