You Should Have Known Me Then

Phil Lee | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 11, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Shanachie
• ASIN: B00005NVJD
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #334,102 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD - Happy, Sad and Funny!, January 6, 2002

By 

Gary C. Nelson - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Should Have Known Me Then (Audio CD)

I picked up this album after seeing it listed by a local columnist as his #1 favorite from 2001. Great rock and country combination with wonderful lyrics. The previous two reviews hit the nail on the head. I like all the tracks but Just Some Old Girl, the rocking Bo Diddley beat of Daddy's Jail, the sadness of 3 Faces in the Window and the joy of Nobody Gotta Know are my favorites. There's even a hint of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound in It's Crying, which has a hint of Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison rolled into it. Great production quality on this CD. Phil Lee is somebody that you should know about.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You Oughta Buy This Now, October 11, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: You Should Have Known Me Then (Audio CD)

OK, Phil Lee is not for everyone. If you recently purchased anything off of Billboard's top 20 singles charts then you probably won't like him. And OK I've been a fan of Phil Lee's for a long while. This CD will show you why. If a better song than "Three Faces In the Window" has been written in the last 25 years please email me the title so I can make sure I own it. If you listen to "Jemima James" without smiling and don't want to hear it again immediately (no matter what you recently purchased) you're just not paying attention. If you listen to "Carl's Got Louise" without laughing out loud check your pulse. Just so you'll know what I'm not incapable of criticism, I don't think the duet between Phil and Allison Moorer (who has a beautiful voice and is a great talent) on "It's Crying" really worked. But the rest of the songs from the rocking "Daddy's Jail" to the tragic "Just Some Girl" are different versions of brilliant.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Phil Lee is a national treasure. A songwriter/artist who has gone through hell so he could, and because he did, hang onto his need and desire to tell what life is really like, instead of scrambling for what might get played on radio. And somehow, he finally come out the other side with a record deal. I'm a songwriter of some success and no matter how often I listen to these songs I feel inadequate and inspired to do better. The understated production by guitar great Richard Bennett is perfect, framing the intimacy and attitude of these songs instead repainting them. You'll be doing yourself, the state of radio, and in my opinion society a favor if you call and request that your local station play this CD...relentlessly...until they do. (I promise I'm not involved with this project!)
If a time capsule was buried today and you want to show folks of the future what we settled for..throw in a couple of CD's off the "hot sellers" list. But if you want to convey into the future what being human is truly about, at it's worst and at it's best...Phil Lee's "You Should Have Known Me Then" has got to be on top.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars probably the best album I have heard this year, April 11, 2002

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Glen Satour (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You Should Have Known Me Then (Audio CD)

Up until 3 months ago I had not heard of Phil Lee - now he is hardly off my cd player. If you like real music, whether it is country, rock or blues you will like his songs and the sense of humour with which he does it!!! A very good album - if you are into Steve Earle, Buddy Miller or Dwight Yoakam then you will like Phil Lee.