Liz Phair Vinyl Records
One of the pivotal figures of American rock & roll in the 1990s, Liz Phair became a sensation with the 1993 release of her debut album in Exile in Guyville. Prior to Exile, Phair released a series of lo-fi cassettes under the Girly-Sound moniker, tapes that became an underground sensation in her native Chicago and beyond. Girly-Sound proved to be the launching pad for Exile in Guyville, a bravura double-album that paired swaggering rockers with stark, moody ballads, its varying moods tied together by Phair's wit and candour. Many singer/songwriters followed in Phair's footsteps -- notably, Alanis Morissette's blockbuster Jagged Little Pill traded in the sexual explicitness that was so bracing on Exile -- while she also tried to navigate the distance between her indie roots and the mainstream