Waves

The best word to describe the album for me is genuine – so much so that it is not hard at all to imagine Phil Gammage himself being genuine as well.  It might be because Phil appears to be singing about home, that is, his hometown of Houston, though it could just as easily be an amalgam of all of the cities where Phil has lived over the years.  For instance, the crashing waves imagery in "Waves" doesn't really fit Houston (although Galveston isn't that far away), and the grit in so many of these songs seems all New York to me – but of course, I have personal experience in that city. 

(March 2015)