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Article: Sam Phillips' serrated lyrical edge
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 23, 1994
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SAM PHILLIPS
At: The Paradise, Thursday night
Sam Phillips' latest album, her third pop album and her
best-seller to date, is entitled "Martinis & Bikinis." Ahem. Hubba
hubba . . . sophisticated sex appeal delivered with a nod and a wink,
by the kind of timid, demure, smart sex bomb who might have once
populated "L.A. Law."
On stage at the Paradise Thursday night before a comfortably full
house, Phillips was neither shaken nor stirred -- although she did
sport an inch or so of bare midriff. She was kind of . . . static .
. . stoic, an avian presence whose most pronounced gesture was to
move her head from side to side, peering awkwardly into the crowd.
She was not uninvolved in the ...