Article: Sam Phillips' serrated lyrical edge

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 ...

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