release date: Aug. 10, 2012
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,92]
producer: Grant-Lee Phillips and Denise Siegel
label: Magnetic Field Recordings - nationality: USA
Track highlights: 1. "Vanishing Song" - 2. "Great Horned Owl" - 3. "Buffalo Hearts" (4 / 5) (live) - 5. "Fools Gold" (4 / 5) (live) - 6. "Silent Arrow" (4 / 5) - 7. "Bound to This World" - 8. "Thunderbird" (4 / 5) (live) - 9. "Black Horses in a Yellow Sky" - 10. "Walking in the Green Corn" (live)
7th studio album by Grant-Lee Phillips following three years after Little Moon (Oct. 2009). This is again a more subdued and laid back Phillips like heard on Virginia Creeper (2004). And it's almost exactly as good as that but may need more time to blossom, at least that's what I experienced. I found it slightly dull at first, but over time I have come to really enjoy it. Aside from being close to his 2004 album - which means mostly acoustic singer / songwriter and alt. folk compositions with Phillips' vocal, acoustic guitar, and only accompanied by violin and / or backing vocals - it's also an album where he takes on a tone that sounds like sung by Michael Stipe and Eddie Vedder combined - at least that's the image I get, and that can't be bad.
Walking in the Green Corn is one of his best solo albums.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5 stars ]
