Grant-Lee Phillips Virginia Creeper Zoë Phillips’ fragile, tender songs are well suited to his uneasy protagonists, who always seem to be moving away from the wreckage of a ruined relationship and toward salvation somewhere, anywhere. He has the rare gift of empathy; on songs like “Calamity Jane” and “Susanna Little,” Phillips depicts women jostled by the caprices of men and the currents of history who somehow emerge with their dignity intact. A- - Mark Weingarten

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