SHAWN PHILLIPS - Contribution LP Folk Rock “revealing the source would only

“revealing the source would only limit the imagination of the listeners

her playing evokes the time spent in her late husband John Coltrane’s band and the avant-garde music of her earlier years

“I was basically lying in the dirt half the time

sky-clawing metal and shimmering ambient music

SHAWN PHILLIPS - Contribution LP Folk Rock “revealing the source would onlyShawn Phillips' first major album, recorded in 1968 with help from the members of Traffic, among others, is a condensation of a far more ambitious studio original that was intended to fill three LPs. The range of sounds on this record is shockingly diverse, from breezy folk rock ('Man Hole Covered Wagon') to pieces incorporating classical guitar and phantasmagoric lyrics ('L Ballade' finds Phillips' at his most Donovan like, but with a better voice),