Stripmall Ballads Stripmall Ballads Maryland, USA Outsider folk musician / outsider folk music ”Phillips Saylor Wisor has led an interesting life, wandering the backroads of the American dream. With DISTANT he channels the ghosts of the highways and byways. He follows paths established by the likes of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson and dozens of others immortalized in Library of Congress recordings discovered during teenage fever dreams. Five yeas as half of the Shiftless Rounders, along with stints in King Wilkie and Vandaveer, heightened his resolve to follow a path determined by roads less taken.” - For Folk’s Sake (UK) “These are songs suspended in the beating heart of America, introspective and intensely poetic..... DISTANT is a record to be sipped with attention and patience, a rich story... a disc with remarkable force.” - Lonestar Time “Phillips continues to create original folk music thanks to Neil Young and Maybelle Carter. Some songs have an almost mythic quality...A signature of sadness and possibility, a distant confidence in the possibility of magic.” - Rootsville
