Street date (10/13/09)
With golden voice and silver-dipped pen Grant-Lee Phillips presents another milestone in a career brimming with the like. Little Moon, his first album since 2007's "Strangelet", is track after track of well-anchored classic American music - rock and folk swirl under clouds of cinematic strings for a primer on the art of the timeless tune. His legendary well of melody is in full display on Little Moon, with even the most lilting piano ballad standing comfortably on a thick, powerful trunk ('Older Now').

Long one of Los Angeles' most sought after songwriters, Grant-Lee meets Little Moon with positive inspirations including the birth of his daughter Violet ('Violet') and a creative calm that saw the songs well up organically from earlier live collaborations with drummer Jay Bellerose, producer bassist Paul Bryan and keyboardist Jamie Edwards. Captured live in the studio with limited overdubs, the album keenly chronicles the sunny day feel of the songs and that ever-elusive in the moment groove of a finely-tuned band working out equally finely-crafted material.

01 Good Morning Happiness
02 Strangest Thing
03 Little Moon
04 It Ain't The Same Old Cold War Harry
05 Seal It With A Kiss
06 Nightbirds
07 Violet
08 Buried Treasure
09 Blind Tom
10 One Morning
11 Older Now
12 The Sun Shines On Jupiter

pants, yet again, shat

I haven't heard a note, but it's something I was looking forward to.

Very cool. Thanks.

I think this is really good, arguably his best solo album yet.

I think I still give the edge to Strangelet, but it's very close. Great album.

I like everything this guy has ever wrote!

"Good Morning Happiness" is destined to be used in about a thousand commercials, TV sitcoms, and romantic comedies.