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Released
  
1994

Release date
  
28 February 1994

Label
  
Virgin Records

Artist
  
Sam Phillips

Producer
  
T Bone Burnett

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Recorded
  
Groove Masters Kiva West Ocean Way Recorders Record One Sunset Sound Factory Sunset Sound Recorders (Hollywood, California)

Martinis & Bikinis (1994)
  
Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop) (1996)

Genres
  
Alternative rock, Folk rock

Similar
  
Sam Phillips albums, Alternative rock albums

Martinis & Bikinis is the seventh (studio) album from American singer-songwriter Sam Phillips. It was first released on March 8, 1994 and re-released on July 17, 2012. The album was also nominated for a Grammy.

Contents

The photographs included in this album's artwork reportedly led to Phillips' role as a mute terrorist in the film Die Hard with a Vengeance.

Track listing

All songs by Sam Phillips, except "Same Rain" and "Same Changes" by Sam Phillips and T-Bone Burnett. "Gimme Some Truth" by John Lennon.

  1. "Love and Kisses" - :56
  2. "Signposts" – 2:19
  3. "Same Rain" – 4:11
  4. "Baby, I Can't Please You" – 3:30
  5. "Circle of Fire" – 3:12
  6. "Strawberry Road" – 4:05
  7. "When I Fall" – 5:07
  8. "Same Changes"– 4:44
  9. "Black Sky" – 4:03
  10. "Fighting with Fire" – 3:00
  11. "I Need Love" – 3:39
  12. "Wheel of the Broken Voice" – 4:00
  13. "Gimme Some Truth" – 3:27

Personnel

  • Sam Phillips on Vocals
  • T Bone Burnett
  • Mickey Curry
  • David Mansfield
  • Colin Moulding
  • Jerry Scheff

    • Additional musicians

  • Michael Blair
  • Peter Buck
  • Marvin Etzioni
  • Dan Heffington
  • Stephen Hodges
  • Van Dyke Parks
  • Marc Ribot
  • Larry Taylor
  • Benmont Tench
  • Strings on "Baby I Can't Please You" arranged by Van Dyke Parks
  • The Sid Page Strings are Sid Page, Joel Derouin, Robert Becker, and Larry Corbett.

    • Songs

    1Love and Kisses0:56
    2Signposts2:19
    3Same Rain4:11

    References

    Martinis & Bikinis Wikipedia
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