Grant-Lee Phillips - Virginia Creeper

As leader of the popular U.S. alt-rock/roots trio Grant Lee Buffalo, he chronicled mythic Americana. On his third solo album, Grant-Lee Phillips continues that tradition, crafting historical epics like the native Indian portrait “Susanna Little” and the Louisiana delta tale “Josephine of the Swamps.” Phillips, a former film student, also cast a cinematic eye on subjects in songs like the suicidal broken-hearted lover in “Dirty Secret.” And he tops off this fine solo outing with a mellifluous cover of Gram Parsons’ “Hickory Wind.”