Album Notes

About Phil Circle and Guilty

His work with the crossover band Guilty brought reviewer words like "rocks," "first rate" and "visionary" to describe his songwriting. In The Mix Magazine said, "If the United States has anything to offer to the world stage of music, music like this is it." With nine years of booking, managing, producing, and writing for Guilty now behind him, he moves in new musical directions.

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Phil Circle arrived back in Chicago from Albuquerque, New Mexico, more than a decade ago and jumped into the local music scene. Within a few years, a degree in music under his belt and countless live performances behind him, he founded Guilty. Based in the roots of rock, jazz and blues, and comprising a line-up of as many as eleven members, the group was a juggernaut. Male and female vocals, guitars, horns, drums and percussion, and even fiddle brought to life a band with multiple personalities.

They recorded a studio CD in 1997 called Extenuating Circumstances; two live releases, one on WZRD Radio, a second at The Hard Rock Café; and with four unreleased studio tracks from 2001, put out a final compilation disc in 2002.

Later in the same year, Phil Circle teamed up with blues fiddler Ruby Harris, a veteran of such venues as Carnegie Hall and The White House. They recorded a live disc the following spring as an acoustic duo and began working with a full band at various shows. Ruby notes that they've created a whole new musical hybrid quite unintentionally.

In 2003, Circle began recording a solo acoustic CD and a new band CD, with some former members of Guilty. Pre-release listening from reviewers has already begun to come in with high marks for this songwriter's new directions. He remains a strong solo performer and a highly capable front man with brisk sales of his prior work promising similar staying power for his upcoming releases. Thanks to the Internet's online music boom, the material of Phil Circle is played and sold throughout the world.

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