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Sam Phillips

Don't Do Anything: The New Sam Phillips Album, Coming in 2007

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Jeffrey Overstreet

23 Oct 2006
Filed under: Sam Phillips • On Songs & Albums

Not much to report here except that an amusing new branch of Sam Phillips's web site -- "Time Travels with Sam Phillips" -- now includes an interesting new photograph and caption that appears to reveal the title and release date of her next record....

Overstreet’s Favorite Recordings of 2025: introduction and honorable mentions

Overstreet’s Favorite Recordings of 2025: introduction and honorable mentions

If only with candles and stars Broken light from dreams like ours We will still find our way through to love . . . — Sam Phillips, “Candles and Stars” By the age of 13, I was a devoted listener to Rick Dees’ Weekly Top 40. Every week, I’d turn the delicate dial
18 Jan 2026 13 min read
7 Walks with Mark Brown: a brilliant way to start a new year of movies

7 Walks with Mark Brown: a brilliant way to start a new year of movies

[Streaming on Hoopla.] Today, I listened to a podcast in which Father James Martin talks about how to begin 2026 with a “spiritual reset.” Then, I went home and watched 7 Walks with Mark Brown. And I experienced a spiritual reset.
17 Jan 2026 6 min read
A memorable evening with John Williams’s biographer

A memorable evening with John Williams’s biographer

On January 8, I interviewed Tim Greiving about his extraordinary journey to becoming the first biographer of the great John Williams.
13 Jan 2026 4 min read
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