The Revelatory Grant-Lee Phillips
Most know the songs of Grant-Lee Phillips, to the extent they know them at all, because of the band that made him “almost famous” in the 90s, Grant Lee Buffalo, and their one modest hit, the Elton John level “Mockingbirds”. Phillips wrote it in the aftermath of the Northridge earthquake in 1994, during which he and his wife lost their home. He wrote the…