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Born in Santa Barbara, CA, Glen Phillips served as the frontman and main songwriter for Toad the Wet Sprocket before launching his solo career in 2001. Toad the Wet Sprocket took shape in 1986, when Phillips was only 14 years old, and the band's debut effort, Bread and Circus, earned them a contract with Columbia Records. However, it was the group's third album -- the jangling, orchestral Fear -- that truly broke the group, garnering heavy radio play with the singles "All I Want" and "Walk on the Ocean." After three years away from the recording studio, Toad returned to the mainstream with Dulcinea, which again found one of its singles, "Fall Down," in heavy radio rotation. After six albums and a substantial string of hits, the group disbanded in 1998.
Phillips began touring as a solo act after Toad the Wet Sprocket's demise and worked with producer Ethan Johns to create his first solo album, 2001's Abulum. He also collaborated on several songs with the bluegrass band Nickel Creek and toured with them for the latter half of 2001. Live at Largo appeared in 2003, followed by Winter Pays for Summer in 2005, a collection of new material that featured guest appearances from ex-Jellyfish frontman Andy Sturmer, Ben Folds, Kristin Mooney, Jon Brion, and Semisonic/Trip Shakespeare scribe Dan Wilson.
Phillips released Mr. Lemons in 2006. That same year, he also toured North American with a reunited Toad the Wet Sprocket, although he only continued releasing new material under his own name. The EP Secrets of the New Explorers arrived in 2008, along with news that Phillips would be joining members of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Nickel Creek, Elvis Costello & the Imposters, and other musicians to form a new band, the Scrolls. ~ Laurel Greenidge, Rovi
Garrison Starr is the quintessential musical triple-threat––singer, songwriter, record producer––and her latest album, Girl I Used To Be, reveals her at the height of all her powers.
Starr is a celebrated singer of such remarkable reputation that music icons go out of their way to praise her. Glen Phillips declares, “Garrison voice goes straight to the gut. She reminds you of what it means to be human.’ Mary Chapin Carpenter adds, “She just writes and sings her heart out. In the American Idolized landscape that constitutes today's music business, she is someone to be thankful for.”
Of her songwriting, Billboard Magazine describes Starr as, “The author of affecting, emotion-bearing songs that are clothed in attractive, melodic garb.” That unique melodic sense is the foundation for Starr’s songwriting acclaim and why she’s found such success writing for TV, commercials, and film, where her songs have been featured numerous times.
Her frequent collaborations with other artists have been both in the studio and onstage––Starr has toured with the likes of Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Bruce Cockburn, Patty Griffin, Mindy Smith, and Melissa Etheridge (to name a few), logging hundreds of thousands of touring miles across the country and around the world.
In 2016 Starr collaborated with Margaret Cho, producing and performing on her grammy-nominated album, American Myth. Pulling no punches, Cho paints Starr as, “An incredible singer and songwriter and one of the brightest talents that music has ever seen. Artists like her come along once in a millennia and we are lucky to have her now.” Garrison Starr lives and works in Los Angeles.