With millions of records sold, the Santa Barbara, California native has come a long way since writing the lyrics for the first Toad the Wet Sprocket album as a 15-year-old.  

In a career that's seen two Platinum albums and multiple hit singles, the band Phillips started fronting in 1986 is still creating. Toad the Wet Sprocket's latest single, "Old Habits Die Hard," is available now.

Host: John Fleming
Producer/Writer:  Ben Province
Audio: Brad Range
Announcer: Any Ruzicka
Music: "Back Around: by A.P.S.

Ep. 11: Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket) Interview

I Don't Miss You.mp3

A festive holiday mashup of I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones) and Holly Jolly Christmas

I Wanna Be Sedated - Christmas Edition

There’s a storm upon the mountain 
Standing over our town
One side rises up in shadow
Bids the water come down
While its better half is blanketed
By sun’s undaunted rays
In such recalcitrant display 
My eyes stay focused on the rain

Down the windows of your bedroom 
Glossy rivers descend 
Shifting shapes and new perspectives 
Focus where the light bends 
Tightly wound defense unspooling 
Like a film within your gaze
Time exposing every frame 
As you’re pulling sunlight through the rain

Wide open skies
Come and take their turn
It’s no surprise 
I still feel the burn
Let go the letters sent
Take time as medicine 
Pain gets lighter 
Memories, brighter

In the corner of your garden 
Potted two to a chair
Where our solitude would soften 
Bent limbs seeking repair
Firmly rooted in the hope that spring 
Has still yet more to say 
Sugar beading on the cane
Like pulling sunlight through the rain 

Here waters part
Split to separate streams 
So too my heart
Tearing at the seams
And though we’re moving on 
The past is never gone
I’ll see your eyes
Every sunrise 

There’s a mist upon the harbor
Prisms seeking the light
There’s a wisp of former ardor 
Falling down with the night
There’s a rainbow stretching from this shore
To find you where you stay
Another bridge across the bay 
Gesturing toward a brighter day
Born pulling sunlight through the rain

Sunlight Through The Rain

A Finished Thing

This song was inspired by band member Kyle Rousseau's travels and written in the redwood forests of Northern California. There will always be things that'll trouble you. Sometimes taking a step back to be mindful of the fact that we are each just a tiny part of this great existence can make these troubles seem more manageable.

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Unterrible Lightness of Being

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