Shawn Phillips - The Best Of Shawn Phillips - The A&M Years (1992)

A best-of with a twist, featuring one new song, the synthesizer-driven "Early in the Night," cut by Phillips in 1992. He still has his touch for numbers with haunting, eerie textures (the guitars are pretty cool, too) and compelling lyrics, and the voice is still there, too. As for the rest, in the absence of all but his second A&M album, it's a decent cross-section of his work from a half-dozen albums. The new notes by Phillips who complains that his current music isn't of interest to any record companies and Bob Garcia frame his work reasonably well, also, and the 75+ minutes of music is pretty generous.

Track List:

01. We
02. Ballad Of Casey Deiss
03. Victoria
04. Bright White
05. ‘L’ Ballade
06. Early Morning Hours
07. I Took A Walk
08. Early In The Night
09. She Was Waiting For Her Mother
10. Hey Miss Lonely
11. Do You Wonder
12. Moonshine
13. Breakthrough
14. Troof
15. Song For Northern Ireland
16. Mr. President