Album Notes

Steve Phillips and John Glick are best friends, brothers-in-law, medical school classmates and practicing physicians. They have been performing a variety of music styles since their debut with "Good Grass" in 1974 at Richmond's famous Chaise Lounge (It's demolition 2 months later was a mere coincidence). G&P are also "actors" coming off a short but well attended run at Harrisonburg's Court Square Theater of "The Sunshine Boys", a Neil Simon comedy. Other performances have included being featured "entertainment" at the Association of Applied and Therapeutic Humor conference in Baltimore, a Gesundheit Institute program in San Francisco, a concert for the guys in the yard at San Quentin State Prison, a Health and Humor conference in Ottawa, and the Virginia "Good Samboree" at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds.

Other career highlights include annual conferences of the Virginia Well Water Drillers Association and the Virginia State Animal Control Officers. At the Central Virginia Funeral Directors Ladies' Night Out, they died laughing. The aging cornball duo has also traveled with Patch Adams and the Gesundheit clowns to Israel and the Palestinian settlements. John is a member of Gesundheit's board of directors and has been clowning for years.

First Night® Harrisonburg (www.firstnite.net), an annual alcohol free New Year's Eve family celebration, has featured Glick & Phillips every year as one of their most popular attractions. The boys have usually performed to packed houses. A local favorite, the aerodynamic duo are prone to poke fun at anyone who has made the news recently and audiences have generally appreciated, or at least tolerated, the "equal opportunity offender" status of the singing doctors.

Music has been a big part of John and Steve's life since they began playing Bluegrass music in the basement of the student dormitory at the Medical College of Virginia their freshman year in 1974. Since then they have played many different types of music including Scottish, Old Time, Rock and Roll, and just about everything else except Disco. Immediately after finishing their medical training they toured dance festivals in Great Britain with John Turner, a champion Scottish fiddler from Virginia, and a group of folk dancers. Their first performance as a duet with guitar and mandolin was providing comfort for Phillips' mother as she lay dying in 1978. She smiled.

Over the years humor and funny songs gradually became the mainstay of their repertoire even as they played other styles of music in different venues. John Glick has written folk and other songs that have been adopted and performed by others.

Maintaining a steady day job is always a big part of the life of musicians and entertainers until they turn professional. G&P keep careers as medical professionals since they can't seem to do it with their act. They were partners in Family Practice in Elkton and Shenandoah, Virginia for 10 years before Phillips specialized in Occupational Medicine and Glick in Medical Acupuncture. Steve is now the Medical Director of Rockingham Memorial Hospital's Center for Corporate Health (an occupation medicine clinic), and John is in the private practice of Medical Acupuncture in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Phillips & Glick Glick & Phillips now have a new website at www.glickandphillips.com . Information on contacting them for "professional" non-medical services can be found there. They are managed by The Lovely Debra, who is Steve's wife and John's sister. They reside in Elkton, VA.