CD REVIEW: Josh Phillips “New Beginnings”

URL: http://thejoshphillips.com/ Josh Phillips’ EP release, New Beginnings, reflects the ever growing influence of contemporary country on modern mainstream music. Phillips hasn’t donned a cowboy hat or slathers his songwriting with hollow concessions to tradition, but he exploits the genre’s soft-pedaled melodies and doe-eyed balladry with confidence. The EP’s six tracks are a little sedate and certainly don’t challenge any …