Philip Claypool

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Philip Claypool

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Background = solo_singer
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Origin = Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Instrument = Vocals
Genre = Country
Occupation = Singer-songwriter
Years_active = 1995–1999
Label = Curb
Associated_acts = Bad Company
Travis Tritt
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Philip Claypool (born in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American country music artist. Between 1995 and 1999, he recorded two studio albums for the Curb Records label (1995's "A Circus Leaving Town" and 1999's "Perfect World"), in addition to charting four singles on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. His highest-charting single was a cover of Bad Company's 1975 hit "Feel Like Makin' Love."

Biography

Philip Claypool was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee.cite web |url=http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/Philip-Claypool.html |title=Philip Claypool biography |accessdate=2008-07-31 |work=oldies.com] His mother, a church organist, influenced him to take interest in gospel music. By the time he was in high school, Claypool had begun writing songs as well, and by age 21, he had made his first professional performance.cite journal |last=Rutkoski |first=Rick |year=1996 |month=August |title=Philip Claypool: Left of Center |journal=Modern Screen's Country Music |volume=90 |issue=6 |pages=46–47 |accessdate=2008-07-31]

By 1995, Claypool had signed to Curb Records as a recording artist.cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:avfexq8gldse~T1 |title=Philip Claypool biography |accessdate=2008-07-31 |last=Ankeny |first=Jason |work=Allmusic] Working with producer Jerry Crutchfield, he released his debut album "A Circus Leaving Town" that same year. This album produced four chart singles on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts (now Hot Country Songs). Among these were the title track (which was later recorded by Travis Tritt on his 2004 album "My Honky Tonk History") and Claypool's highest-charting hit, a cover of British band Bad Company's 1975 single "Feel Like Makin' Love".

Claypool's debut album received a three-star rating from Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic, who called it "a diverse collection [b] uilding on a solid contemporary base", with "intriguing" production that "sav [ed] even the weakest tracks". [cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dpftxq8hldje |title=A Circus Leaving Town — Overview |accessdate=2008-07-31 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |work=Allmusic] Dan Kuchar of "Country Standard Time" noted Claypool's "leather and velvet" voice but felt that, except for the Bad Company cover and one other song, the material was largely "tired, cliché-laden… [and] devoid of any hooks".cite web |url=http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=3460 |title=A Circus Leaving Town |accessdate=2008-07-31 |last=Kuchar |first=Dan |work=Country Standard Time] Claypool himself described the album as being "left of center". In a 1996 interview with "Modern Screen's Country Music" magazine, he called it "more mature" but "a little distanced from what is happening radio-wise".

Claypool's self-produced second album, "Perfect World", was released in 1999, although it produced no chart singles and mostly comprised material from his first album. He has not recorded anything else since.

Discography

Albums

Both albums released on Curb Records.

ingles

References