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{{short description|American singer (born 1962)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Sam Phillips
| image             = Leslie Ann Phillips cropped.jpg
| caption           = Phillips on stage in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| alt               = blonde woman playing guitar
| background        = solo_singer
| birth_name        = Leslie Ann Phillips
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1962|01|28}}
| birth_place       = [[Glendale, California|Glendale]], California, U.S.
| spouse            = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[T Bone Burnett]]|1989|2004|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Eric Gorfain]]|2010}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vernali |first=Cameron |date=August 13, 2018|title=Alumnus composes original score for Emmy-nominated ''Marvelous Mrs. Maisel''|url=https://dailybruin.com/2018/08/13/alumnus-composes-original-score-for-emmy-nominated-marvelous-mrs-maisel |access-date=February 24, 2024 |newspaper=[[Daily Bruin]]}}</ref>
}}
| genre             = [[Alternative rock]], [[pop music|pop]]
| occupation        = Singer, songwriter
| instrument        = Vocals, guitar, keyboards
| years_active      = 1980–present
| label             = [[Myrrh Records|Myrrh]], [[Virgin Records|Virgin]], [[Nonesuch Records|Nonesuch]]
| associated_acts   = [[T Bone Burnett]], [[Eric Gorfain]]
| website           = {{URL|samphillips.com}}
}}

'''Leslie Ann Phillips'''<ref name=2019_BMI-Profile>{{cite web|title=Songwriter/Composer: Phillips Leslie A - Current Affiliation: ASCAP CAE/IPI #:51325120|url=http://repertoire.bmi.com/Catalog.aspx?detail=writerid&page=1&fromrow=1&torow=25&keyid=268608&subid=0|work=[[Broadcast Music, Inc.|BMI]]}}</ref> (born January 28, 1962),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rose |first=Mike |date=January 28, 2023|title=Today's famous birthdays list for January 28, 2023 includes celebrities Ariel Winter, Will Poulter|url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/01/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-january-28-2023-includes-celebrities-ariel-winter-will-poulter.html |access-date=January 28, 2023 |website=[[Cleveland.com]]}}</ref> better known by her [[stage name]] '''Sam Phillips''', is an American singer and songwriter. Her albums include the critically acclaimed ''[[Martinis & Bikinis]]'' in 1994 and ''[[Fan Dance (album)|Fan Dance]]'' in 2001. She has also composed scores for the television shows ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', ''[[Bunheads]]'', and ''[[The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel]]''.<ref name=2018_ASCAP-WorldOnSticks>{{cite news|last1=Philbrook|first1=Erik|title=The World According to Sam Phillips|url=https://www.ascap.com/news-events/articles/2018/12/sam-phillips-interiew|work=[[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|ASCAP]]|date=December 4, 2018}}</ref>

== Early life ==

Phillips was born in [[Glendale, California]] to parents William and Peggy Phillips.<ref name=":0" /> She is the second of three children and has a brother and a sister.<ref>{{cite web |author=Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/sam-phillips-mn0000240923/biography |title=Sam Phillips &#124; Biography |publisher=AllMusic |date=January 28, 1962 |access-date=February 19, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Image Journal interview">{{cite news |last=Overstreet |first=Jeffrey |title=A Conversation with Sam Phillips |url=http://www.imagejournal.org/article/conversation-sam-phillips/ |access-date=May 26, 2016 |website=imagejournal.org |year=2009}}</ref> She was given the nickname Sam, which would later become her stage name.

Phillips started singing at a young age, along with dancing, painting, and playing the piano.<ref>{{Cite book |date=May 1, 2004 |title=Baker's biographical dictionary of popular musicians since 1990 }}</ref> Phillips also started studying philosophy and fundamentalism at the age of 14.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Giles |first=Jeff |date=April 4, 1994 |title=She's stirred, not shaken |url=https://web.p.ebscohost.com/ehost/results?vid=3&sid=d26cb4b0-0f11-4926-86a1-1e3951640232%40redis&bquery=AN+9403307660&bdata=JmRiPXB3aCZjbGkwPUZUJmNsdjA9WSZ0eXBlPTAmc2VhcmNoTW9kZT1BbmQmc2l0ZT1laG9zdC1saXZl |journal=Newsweek |volume=123 |issue=14 |pages=60}}</ref> Phillips began writing songs as a teenager to cope with her parents' divorce.

== Career ==

Phillips began her musical career in the early 1980s in the [[Christian music industry|contemporary Christian music industry]], where she sang background vocals for [[Contemporary Christian music|Christian]] artists [[Mark Heard]] and [[Randy Stonehill]].

Phillips was signed as a solo artist with [[Myrrh Records]] under her given name and recorded four Christian pop albums: ''[[Beyond Saturday Night]]'', ''[[Dancing with Danger]]'', ''[[Black and White in a Grey World]]'', and ''[[The Turning (album)|The Turning]]''. ''The Turning'' teamed her with producer [[T Bone Burnett]], who had worked with artists [[Bob Dylan]], [[Elvis Costello]], and [[Roy Orbison]].<ref name=":0" /> The two would later get married.

Several of Phillips' songs became Top 10 singles on Christian radio<ref name="Billboard guide to ccm bio">{{cite book |last=Alfonso |first=Barry |title=The Billboard guide to contemporary Christian music |year=2002 |publisher=[[Random House]] Digital, Inc |isbn=0-8230-7718-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VzFZZ4yi3DMC&q=%22leslie+phillips%22+%22christian+radio%22&pg=PA226 |access-date=November 9, 2011 |page=226}}</ref> and Myrrh Records promoted her as "the Christian [[Cyndi Lauper]]". Phillips was never comfortable with this image, and it was a bone of contention between her and her label. She began using the name "Sam" professionally in 1988 when she left Myrrh Records and signed with [[Virgin Records]] in order to distance herself from her prior persona.<ref name="allmusic bio">{{cite web |last=Ankeny |first=Jason |title=Sam Phillips Biography |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/sam-phillips-p114183/biography |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=November 9, 2011}}</ref>

With ''[[The Indescribable Wow]]'', Philips moved into mainstream music. The album featured the orchestrations of [[Van Dyke Parks]] and took influence from 1960's pop.<ref name=":0" /> ''[[Cruel Inventions]]'' was released in 1991, and included a guest performance by Elvis Costello. 1994's ''[[Martinis and Bikinis]]'' was widely praised by music critics and was nominated for a [[Grammy Award]],<ref name="telegraph story">{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Helen |title=Spotlight on a broken heart |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3620714/Spotlight-on-a-broken-heart.html |access-date=November 9, 2011 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=July 15, 2004}}</ref> her second nomination (the first was as Leslie Phillips).

In 1995, Phillips made her film acting debut as the mute terrorist Katya in the [[Bruce Willis]] blockbuster ''[[Die Hard with a Vengeance]]''. In 1996, Phillips released ''[[Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop)]]'', which featured a song co-written by [[R.E.M.]] Phillips made a cameo appearance in the 1997 [[Wim Wenders]] film ''[[The End of Violence]]'', singing part of the song "Animals on Wheels" from ''Omnipop''. After releasing a contractually obligated "best of" album in 1999, Virgin Records dropped Phillips from its roster.<ref name=":0">Zinn, M. R., & Vaughn, V. E. (2014). [https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&u=lom_ferrissu&id=GALE%7CCX2500800046&v=2.1&it=r Sam Phillips]. In T. Ratiner (Ed.), [https://go.gale.com/ps/eToc.do?contentModuleId=GVRL&resultClickType=AboutThisPublication&searchType=&docId=GALE%7C4ZJA&userGroupName=lom_ferrissu&inPS=true&rcDocId=GALE%7CCX2500800046&prodId=GVRL ''Contemporary Musicians''] (Vol. 78, pp. 132-135). Gale. Retrieved September 23, 2022.</ref>

In 2001, Phillips signed with [[Nonesuch Records]], evolving her musical style to a stripped-down, acoustically based sound on her album called ''[[Fan Dance (album)|Fan Dance]]'', as well as guest appearances from musical partners [[Gillian Welch]] on vocals and [[David Rawlings]] on piano, for whom T Bone Burnett had produced several years earlier. Phillips also began writing music for and scoring the television series ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', and appeared in the final episode of season six, performing "Taking Pictures" from her ''Fan Dance'' album. In 2004, she released ''[[A Boot and a Shoe]]'', another collection of acoustically based songs, similar in style to ''Fan Dance''. In 2006 she was ranked at No. 94 on ''[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]'' magazine's list of the top 100 living songwriters.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/2670/pastes_100_best_living_songwriters/lists/|title=Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters|date=June 2, 2006|accessdate=December 25, 2021}}</ref>

After the release of ''A Boot and a Shoe'', Phillips and T Bone Burnett, who had been her longtime producer, divorced, although they continued to work together to finish her album.<ref>{{cite news |last=Adams |first=Sam |title=Musicpicks: Sam Phillips |url=http://archives.citypaper.net/articles/2004-10-14/musicpicks.shtml |access-date=November 9, 2011 |newspaper=[[Philadelphia City Paper]] |date=October 14–20, 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226031050/http://archives.citypaper.net/articles/2004-10-14/musicpicks.shtml |archive-date=February 26, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sam Phillips – A Boot and a Shoe |url=http://artsandfaith.com/index.php?showtopic=1548&st=100 |work=Arts and Faith |access-date=November 9, 2011 |date=May 20, 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sam Phillips |url=http://www.overtherhine.com/orchard/lofiversion/index.php/t1329.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607220652/http://www.overtherhine.com/orchard/lofiversion/index.php/t1329.html |archive-date=June 7, 2010 |work=overtherhine.com |access-date=November 9, 2011}}</ref> Her album ''[[Don't Do Anything]]'' was self-produced and released in 2008.

In October 2009, Phillips launched ''The Long Play'', a music subscription service offering digital releases without a record label.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lewis |first=Randy |title=For musicians, economy is the mother of invention |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-0509-sam-phillips-20100509,0,5342881.story |access-date=November 9, 2011 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=May 9, 2010}}</ref> The first subscription only EP, ''Hypnotists in Paris'', was recorded with the [[Section Quartet]] and a Christmas collection ''Cold Dark Night'', ''Magic for Everyone'', ''Old Tin Pan'', and ''Days of the One Night Stands'' followed, with the full-length album [[Cameras in the Sky]] being released in early 2010. In Spring of 2011 she issued ''[[Solid State (Sam Phillips album)|Solid State]]'', a public CD release comprising 13 of the best songs from her subscription service.

In 2012, it was announced that she would be reunited with ''Gilmore Girls'' creator Amy Sherman-Palladino by scoring music for the short-lived American TV show ''[[Bunheads]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Adams |first=Sam |title=Sam Phillips |url=http://samphillips.com/2012/06/10/sam-scores-bunheads-leap-toward-the-earth-single/ |access-date=June 13, 2012 |date=June 13, 2012}}</ref>

Phillips described her next album, ''Pretty Time Bomb'' (later renamed ''Push Any Button''), as being "a nostalgic sort of dream of being a pop star in the 60s and early 70s. It's a sweet kind of album and I don't know where it came from. I don't know what compelled me to make it. It's probably a bad idea, but every time I listen to what I've done, it makes me really happy. So I figure, that must mean something and I should go ahead and put it out there."<ref>{{cite news |last=Adams |first=Sam |title=Sam Phillips |url=http://www.americansongwriter.com/2011/11/art-and-commerce-a-qa-with-sam-phillips// |access-date=July 31, 2012 |work=[[American Songwriter]] |date=November 16, 2011}}</ref>

''[[Push Any Button]]'' was released on August 13, 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=Release 'Push Any Button' by Sam Phillips – MusicBrainz |url=http://musicbrainz.org/release/5202fe88-d006-43e6-827d-f279103f8e6b |access-date=December 5, 2013}}</ref> Phillips has described ''Push Any Button'' as 'an impressionistic version of the AM pop radio playing inside her head'—a way of 'looking at the future through the past. For the vinyl release through her website, Phillips created a limited run of unique handmade collages on repurposed vintage LP sleeves sourced from flea markets. In 2015, a suite of these collage artworks were exhibited at [[Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces|Gertrude Contemporary]] in [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]] in an exhibition called ''Lost and Profound'' curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham.

In 2013, Phillips' first live concert album, ''Sam Phillips: Live @ Largo at The Coronet'', was made available digitally through her website,<ref name=2013_SamPhillips_LiveAtLargo>{{cite news|title="Sam Phillips: Live @ Largo at the Coronet" Film and Album|url=https://samphillips.com/news_item&NewsID=3765647637393|work=Sam Phillips|year=2013}}</ref> and is also the title of a 2019 documentary directed by [[Dave Rygalski]], who filmed the 2013 performances.<ref name=2019_GrammyMuseum-LiveAtLargo>{{cite news|title=Reel To Reel: Sam Phillips: Live @ Largo At The Coronet|url=https://www.grammymuseum.org/events/detail/sam-phillips|work=Grammy Museum at L.A. Live|date=April 24, 2019}}</ref>

On November 21, 2016, Phillips released an eight-track downloadable EP ''Human Contact is Never Easy'', which included new tracks off her next album ''World on Sticks''.

Phillips reunited with [[Amy Sherman-Palladino]] as composer for ''[[Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life]]'', a revival of the television series, which was released on [[Netflix]] on November 25, 2016.

In September 2018, Phillips released ''World on Sticks''.<ref name=2018_ASCAP-WorldOnSticks />

== Personal life ==

In 1989, Phillips married producer and musician [[T-Bone Burnett]]. <ref>Stewart, Perry, "Nightcrawler: A Star Is Born" ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'' January 9, 1998</ref> Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004; both have since remarried, Phillips to [[Eric Gorfain]].<ref name="Orange County Register article">{{cite news |last=Falsani |first=Cathleen |title=Stubborn grace and pushing buttons |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125134520/https://www.ocregister.com/2013/08/26/falsani-stubborn-grace-and-pushing-buttons/ |archive-date=January 25, 2018 |url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/phillips-522471-grace-music.html |access-date=May 26, 2016 |newspaper=[[The Orange County Register]] |date=August 26, 2013}}</ref><ref name="ABC News article">{{cite news |last=Ouellette |first=Dan |title=T Bone Burnett's Ex Finds Her Voice |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=5191915&page=1 |access-date=May 26, 2016 |work=ABC News |date=June 21, 2008}}</ref>

== Selected awards ==

* 1985: [[Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance, Female]] (nominee) for ''[[Black and White in a Grey World]]'' – as Leslie Phillips<ref name=1985_Grammy-BlackAndWhite>{{cite web|title=Artist: Leslie Phillips|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/leslie-phillips|website=The Recording Academy|year=1985}}</ref>
* 1994: [[Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance]] (nominee) for "Circle of Fire" from ''[[Martinis & Bikinis]]'' – as Sam Phillips<ref name=1994_Grammy-CircleOfFire>{{cite web|title=Artist: Sam Phillips|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/sam-phillips-0|website=The Recording Academy|year=1994}}</ref>
* 2011: ''[[Image (journal)|Image]]'', [[Denise Levertov]] Award<ref name=2011_ImageJournal-Levertov>{{cite news|title=Levertov Award Recipients|url=http://www.imagejournal.org/levertov/|work=Image Journal|year=2011}}</ref>

== Discography ==

=== Albums ===

==== As Leslie Phillips ====

* 1983: ''[[Beyond Saturday Night]]'' ([[Myrrh Records|Myrrh]])
* 1984: ''[[Dancing with Danger]]'' (Myrrh)
* 1985: ''[[Black and White in a Grey World]]'' (Myrrh)
* 1987: ''[[The Turning (album)|The Turning]]'' (Myrrh)

==== As Sam Phillips ====

* 1988: ''[[The Indescribable Wow]]'' ([[Virgin Records|Virgin]])
* 1991: ''[[Cruel Inventions]]'' (Virgin)
* 1994: ''[[Martinis & Bikinis]]'' (Virgin)
* 1996: ''[[Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop)]]'' (Virgin)
* 2001: ''[[Fan Dance (album)|Fan Dance]]'' ([[Nonesuch Records|Nonesuch]])
* 2004: ''[[A Boot and a Shoe]]'' (Nonesuch)
* 2008: ''[[Don't Do Anything]]'' (Nonesuch)
* 2011: ''[[Cameras in the Sky]]'' (Littlebox)
* 2011: ''Solid State'' (Littlebox)
* 2013: ''[[Push Any Button]]'' (Littlebox)
* 2018: ''World on Sticks'' (Littlebox)
* 2019: ''Cold Dark Nights'' (Littlebox)

=== Digital EPs ===

* 2009: ''Hypnotists in Paris''
* 2009: ''Cold Dark Night''
* 2010: ''Magic for Everybody''
* 2010: ''Old Tin Pan''
* 2010: ''Days of the One Night Stands''
* 2016: ''Human Contact is Never Easy''

=== Compilations ===

==== As Leslie Phillips ====

* 1987: ''[[Recollection (Leslie Phillips album)|Recollection]]'' (Myrrh)
* 2007: ''The Definitive Collection'' (Myrrh)

==== As Sam Phillips ====

* 1998: ''[[Zero Zero Zero (album)|Zero Zero Zero]]'' (Virgin)
* 2008: ''The Disappearing Act 1987–1998'' (Raven)

=== Compilation appearances ===

* 1981: ''Back to the Rock'' – "Bring Me Through"
* 1985: ''Love Songs for Christian Couples – Vol. 1'' – "Enough for Me"
* 1986: ''Not Gonna Bow'' "Black and White in a Grey World"
* 1992: ''A Midnight Clear'' (soundtrack) – "[[It Came Upon the Midnight Clear|It Came Upon a Midnight Clear]]"
* 1994: ''Ready to Wear (Pret–a–porter)'' (soundtrack) – "[[These Boots Are Made for Walkin']]"
* 1994: ''Melrose Place: The Music'' – "Baby, I Can't Please You"
* 2002: ''Maranatha! Anthology: The Artists, 1971–2001'' – "Bring Me Through"
* 2002: ''[[Our Little Corner of the World: Music from Gilmore Girls]]'' – "Tell Her What She Wants to Know"
* 2002: ''[[Hear Music Volume 7: Waking]]'' ([[Hear Music]]) – "Is That Your Zebra?"
* 2003: ''Crossing Jordan'' (soundtrack) – "[[I Wanna Be Your Man]]"
* 2009: ''[[Crazy Heart (soundtrack)|Crazy Heart]]'' – "Reflecting Light"
* 2011: ''Kings & Queens'' (Blackie & the Rodeo Kings) – "Love Lay Me Down"

=== As guest ===

* 1981: ''[[Stop the Dominoes]]'' by [[Mark Heard]] – backing vocals
* 1982: ''[[Victims of the Age]]'' by Mark Heard – backing vocals
* 1983: ''Side By Side'' by [[The Imperials]] – guest vocals on "Make My Heart Your Home"
* 1983; ''[[Equator (Stonehill album)|Equator]]'' by [[Randy Stonehill]] – backing vocals
* 1990: ''[[Dry Bones Dance]]'' by Mark Heard – backing vocals
* 1991: ''Nothing but a Burning Light'' by Bruce Cockburn – backing vocals on "Great Big Love"
* 1992: ''[[Life Is Messy]]'' by [[Rodney Crowell]] – backing vocals on "Let's Make Trouble"
* 1992: ''[[Satellite Sky]]'' by Mark Heard – backing vocals
* 1993: ''[[Christmas (Bruce Cockburn album)|Christmas]]'' by [[Bruce Cockburn]] - arr. and backing vocals on "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"
* 1996: ''[[Bringing Down the Horse]]'' by [[The Wallflowers]] – backing vocals on "Invisible City" and "Laughing Out Loud"
* 2015: ''Airless Midnight'' by [[Eszter Balint]] – backing vocals on "The Mother" and "Exit at 63"

=== Selected collaborations ===

* 2009: ''[[Raising Sand]]'' by [[Alison Krauss]] and [[Robert Plant]] – featured Phillips' song “Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us” off of ''Don't Do Anything'' – the record won [[Grammy Award for Record of the Year]]
* 2018: ''[[She Remembers Everything]]'' by [[Rosanne Cash]] – co-wrote title track

=== Singles ===

'''As Leslie Phillips'''

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan="2" | Year
! rowspan="2" | Title
!| Chart positions
! rowspan="2" | Album
|-
!US Christian<ref>{{cite book|last=Powell|first=Mark Allan|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music|publisher=Hendrickson Publishers|year=2002|location=Peabody, Massachusetts|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco00mark/page/708 708]|isbn=1-56563-679-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco00mark/page/708}}</ref>
|-
| 1983
| "Heart of Hearts"
| style="text-align:center;"|14
| ''Beyond Saturday Night''
|-
|
| "I'm Finding"
| style="text-align:center;"|31
| ''Beyond Saturday Night''
|-
| 1984
| "Make My Heart Your Home" (with Paul Smith and [[The Imperials]])
| style="text-align:center;"|12
| ''Side By Side''
|-
|
| "By My Spirit" (with [[Matthew Ward (singer)|Matthew Ward]])
| style="text-align:center;"|12
| ''Dancing with Danger''
|-
| 1985
| "Here He Comes with My Heart"
| style="text-align:center;"|6
| ''Dancing with Danger''
|-
|
| "Strength of My Life" (guest vocals by [[Russ Taff]])
| style="text-align:center;"|9
| ''Dancing with Danger''
|-
|
| "Dancing with Danger"
| style="text-align:center;"|11
| ''Dancing with Danger''
|-
| 1986
| "Your Kindness"
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| ''Black and White in a Grey World''
|-
|
| "The More I Know"
| style="text-align:center;"|7
| ''Black and White in a Grey World''
|-
|
| "Psalm 55"
| style="text-align:center;"|8
| ''Black and White in a Grey World''
|-
| 1987
| "Libera Me"
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| ''The Turning''
|-
|
| "Love Is Not Lost"
| style="text-align:center;"|14
| ''The Turning''
|-
|
| "Answers Don't Come Easy"
| style="text-align:center;"|11
| ''The Turning''
|-
| 1988
| "No One But You"
| style="text-align:center;"|11
| ''Recollection''
|}

'''As Sam Phillips'''

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan="2" | Year
! rowspan="2" | Title
! colspan="5" | Chart positions
! rowspan="2" | Album
|-
! US [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]]
! US [[Modern Rock Tracks chart|Modern Rock]]
! US [[Mainstream Rock Tracks chart|Mainstream Rock]]
! US Rock Sales
! [[UK Singles Chart|UK]]
|-
| 1989
| "Holding on to the Earth"
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"|22<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Holding on to the Earth – Sam Phillips |url={{BillboardURLbyName |artist=sam phillips |chart=all}}|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | access-date=November 9, 2011}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| ''The Indescribable Wow''
|-
| 1994
| "Baby I Can't Please You"
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| ''Martinis & Bikinis''
|-
| 2016
| "Reflecting Light"
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| 15<ref name="Digital">{{cite magazine|title=Rock Digital Song Sales|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/rock-digital-song-sales/2016-12-17|magazine=Billboard|access-date=December 7, 2016}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| ''A Boot and a Shoe''
|}

== Composer of television music ==

* 2000–2007: ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' (153 episodes)
* 2012–2013: ''[[Bunheads]]'' (18 episodes)
* 2017–2019: ''[[The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel]]'' (19 episodes)

== Selected filmography ==

* 1993: ''[[Ruby in Paradise]]'' – opening credits song, "Raised on Promises"
* 1995: ''[[Die Hard with a Vengeance]]'' – as Katya
* 1997: ''[[The End of Violence]]'' – as a singer
* 2006: ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' – as a troubadour

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* {{Official website}}
* {{IMDb name|id=0680767|name=Sam Phillips}}
* {{AllMusic|id=sam-phillips-mn0000240923|label=Sam Phillips}}
* {{discogs artist|155831-Sam-Phillips|Sam Phillips}}

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