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With Martinis and Bikinis, Sam Phillips' music turns decidedly Beatlesque: edgier and more psychedelic than her previous work, songs like "Strawberry Road" and "Same Rain" springboard from John Lennon-inspired origins, while "Same Changes" brazenly borrows from "If I Needed Someone" -- Van Dyke Parks' string arrangement for the stunning "Baby, I Can't Please You" even recalls "Tomorrow Never Knows." (To punctuate matters, the album closes with a cover of Lennon's "Gimme Some Truth.") The difference between Phillips and the vast majority of her pop-revisionist contemporaries, however, is that she never coasts on the fumes of her influences, but turns them on their head and gives them new life -- regardless of the approach, her impassioned, spiritually charged songs remain the product of a singular vision. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Martinis & Bikinis
03/08/1994 | Virgin Records Us
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Credits
- Colin Moulding
- Producer, ?
- John Paterno
- Mixing Assistant
- Sam Phillips
- Vocals, Main Performer
- Bob Salcedo
- Assistant Engineer
- Joe Schiff
- Engineer
- Howard Willing
- Assistant Engineer
- Tom Nellen
- Assistant Engineer
- Robert Bevcker
- Strings
- Noel Hazen
- Assistant Engineer
- Len Peltier
- Art Direction
- P.R. Brown
- Design
- Geof Kern
- Photography
- David Eike
- Assistant Engineer
- Dave Brock
- Assistant Engineer
- Sid Page
- Strings, ?
- Neal Avron
- Engineer
- Robert Becker
- Strings, ?
- Tchad Blake
- Mixing
- T Bone Burnett
- Producer
- Jim Champagne
- Assistant Engineer
- Larry Corbett
- Strings, ?
- Joel Derouin
- Strings, ?
- Bob Ludwig
- Mastering
- Van Dyke Parks
- ?, String Arrangements
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