Little Moon

Personnel: Grant-Lee Phillips (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 12-string guitar, baritone guitar, banjo); Eric Gorfain, Daphne Chen (violin); Alma Fernandez (viola); Richard Dodd (cello); Jason Thor (trombone, bass trombone, tuba); Jamie Edwards (piano, Clavinet, Wurlitzer organ, keyboards, Moog synthesizer, background vocals); Jay Bellerose (drums, percussion); Sebastian Aymanns (percussion); Denise Siegel, Paul Bryan (background vocals).Audio Mixer: Ryan Freeland.Recording information: Stampede Origin (05/04/2009-05/08/2009).Photographer: Denise Siegel.It makes sense that golden-throated alt-crooner Grant Lee Phillips should join the ranks of fellow enigmatic 20th century underground rock icons like Robyn Hitchcock, Nick Lowe, and John Doe at Yep Roc. Though he may have traded the brooding Americana of his Grant Lee Buffalo trio for the safer shores of adult alternative pop/rock since disbanding the unit in the mid-'90s, his output has been no less worthy of praise. On his