Grant-Lee Phillips wsg Peter Mulvey

Songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips in concert with special guest Peter Mulvey.

Along with friends Aimee Mann and Jon Brion, Phillips' sound has encapsulated the L.A. songwriter scene of the last 10 years. We've been fans for at least that long, and when GLP joined Robyn Hitchcock at McCabe's in January, we leaped at the chance and invited him to headline our stage. A gifted songwriter, his honeyed vocals and melodic playing have been heard in soundtracks (Funny People, The Gilmore Girls, Hung) and he’s collaborated with the likes of Michael Penn, John Doe, and The Eels. His 2009 effort, Little Moon remains one of our favorite albums, and we’re thrilled to welcome one of this town’s great talents to our stage. Peter Mulvey, already a headliner at McCabe's, will open the show. How can you beat that?

Peter Mulvey is a walking secret handshake.  He has been the street-singing kid in Dublin, the man fronting the storming electric band, the conspiratorial spoken-word craftsman, the Tin Pan Alley delver, an instigator in the occasional Redbird collective, and all through it he has remained the traveler out on the road, bringing his music to audiences from Fairbanks to Bilbao, Santa Monica to Montreal, in clubs, theaters, coffee shops, the Kennedy Center, and old barns.

His latest record, The Good Stuff (Signature
Sounds 2012) is a dazzling tour de force through American song: a standards record -- if the definition of "standard" was left in Mulvey's hands.  In his universe, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk are presumed colleagues of Tom Waits and Jolie Holland.  Bill Frisell and Willie Nelson are obviously in the same wheelhouse.  Bobby Charles is still alive and having coffee with a bemused Leonard Cohen somewhere in the Ninth Ward.  And more from Chris Smither, Anita Suhanin, Joe Henry,  Malvern Taylor, Tim Gearan, David Goodrich.  With a 14-song disc in hand, 6 extra songs from the studio
session spilled over onto the EP, Chaser.  Both are
available online and at Peter’s live shows.