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Shawn Phillips Receives Lifetime Achievement Award and celebrate reissues

04/17/2000

This excerpt is from his OFFICIAL site www.shawnphillips.com

"Universal catalog recording artist Shawn Phillips is celebrating his 30th anniversary tour in Quebec. He's also celebrating the re-release of five classic albums on CD, Contribution, Collaboration, Bright White, Furthermore and Do You Wonder.

In recognition of his mutliplatinum success in Canada and his 37 years of recording, BMG recording star and fan, Roch Voisine will on behalf of Shawn Phillips' fans everywhere, present him with a Lifetime Achievement award.

Ft. Worth, TX native singer-songwriter, Phillips recorded 17 albums and released three anthologies spanning a 37-year musical career. Nine records were recorded on A&M (1970-1978). Five more records found five other major labels: Capitol, EMI, PolyGram RCA and Chameleon (1979-1988). The album Second Contribution is certified by the Canadian recording industry (CRIA) as triple platinum.

Three albums charted on Billboard's top 100 albums in the 1970's, Faces, Furthermore and Do You Wonder. Phillips singles made the charts too: We, Bright White and Lost Horizon. Altogether, Phillips sold several million records. Music critics consider him an originator of the progressive folk-rock sound.

The Phillips' catalog features a treasure chest of music jewels, including Stevie Winwood keyboards to lush orchestration by Elton John's legendary orchestrator Paul Buckmaster, and major motion film score maestro's Peter R. Robinson and Michael Kamen."