Meet the Beatles

Phillips covers the Fab Four like one of the boys

Benjamin Svetkey

Entertainment Weekly: March 11, 1994

Sam Phillips should be made an honorary fifth Beatle. The 13 songs on her fifth album-produced, like the last three, by husband T Bone Burnett-are laced with lovely riff-ettes on Fab Four classics like "Strawberry Fields Forever" and Sgt. Pepper. There's even a powerful cover of Lennon's "Gimme Some Truth" for a finale. It takes massive cojones to flirt so close to Beatlemania-but this quirky folk-rocker has the talent to pull it off. A



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