Grant-Lee's first solo album, Ladies' Love Oracle was recorded in just three days. Here, Phillips takes the warmth and broadness of his work with band Grant Lee Buffalo and internalizes it, producing a raw, yet focused acoustic work. Harmonica and piano fill out certain tracks but only to compliment the stark skeleton created by Grant-Lee's voice and guitar. As Phillips himself has been quoted as saying, "Sometimes a sketch says more than a mural." LLO bridges the gap between two phases of a legendary career and signifies the emergence of a refreshed and unchained songwriting voice, one that would go on to be proven as one of the most singular of last twenty years.
