Virginia Creeper (album)

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Virginia Creeper
Grant-Lee Phillips - Virginia Creeper.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 24, 2004 (2004-02-24)
RecordedAugust 1–14, 2003
StudioSunset Sound Factory, Hollywood, California
Genre
Length48:04
Label Zoë
Producer Grant-Lee Phillips
Grant-Lee Phillips chronology
Mobilize
(2001)
Virginia Creeper
(2004)
nineteeneighties
(2006)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 77/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
E! Online B [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
PopMatters favorable [5]

Virginia Creeper is the third album by American singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips, released on February 24, 2004.

Contents

Critical reception

Virginia Creeper was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 77, based on 14 reviews. [2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Grant-Lee Phillips, unless noted

Virginia Creeper tracklist
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Mona Lisa" 4:11
2."Walking Memory" 4:07
3."Lily-A-Passion" 4:30
4."Dirty Secret" 3:37
5."Always Friends" 3:33
6."Calamity Jane" 3:44
7."Josephine of the Swamps" 5:22
8."Far End of the Night" 4:46
9."Susanna Little" 6:08
10."Wish I Knew" 3:58
11."Hickory Wind"
4:08

Personnel

Musicians

Production

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormat(s)Catalog
UKFebruary 24, 2004 Cooking Vinyl CD, LPCOOKCD249 [6]
USFebruary 24, 2004 Zoë CD, LP01143-1043-2 [7]

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