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Glen Phillips is an American songwriter, lyricist, singer and guitarist. He is the lead singer and songwriter of the alternative rock group Toad the Wet Sprocket and also records and performs as a solo artist.

Phillips formed Toad the Wet Sprocket in 1986, at the age of 15, with friends from his high school.

In 1991, at age 20, Phillips wrote the song “All I Want”.

The band recorded five albums but broke up in 1998, after escalating tensions, shortly after Phillips’ father died of colon cancer.

During his time in Toad the Wet Sprocket, Phillips was involved in a pop rock project called Flapping, Flapping, which released the album Montgomery Street in 1996.

In 2001, three years after the breakup of Toad, Phillips released his first solo album, Abulum. This was followed up by a self-released live album and solo touring, along with a reunion tour with his former Toad bandmates.

In 2004, Phillips released a collaboration with Nickel Creek, under the name Mutual Admiration Society. The self-titled album had been recorded in 2000 and featured songs written by both Phillips alone and as collaborative efforts, and was released on Sugar Hill Records.

In 2005, Phillips returned to a major label via Universal Music Group’s imprint Lost Highway Records and released the critically acclaimed Winter Pays For Summer. The album included the radio single “Duck and Cover,” but Phillips and the label parted ways due to creative differences. A compilation of six outtakes from the album were published as an EP titled Unlucky 7, the first track (“The Hole”) of which was featured in the second episode of the AMC television series Breaking Bad.

Phillips released his third proper solo album, Mr. Lemons in the spring of 2006.

In 2007, Phillips reunited with Sara Watkins and Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek as well as Grant-Lee Phillips and Luke Bulla to perform as part of The Various & Sundry Tour.

In January 2008, Phillips released an EP Secrets of the New Explorers, with music influenced by Talk Talk and Peter Gabriel.

In January 2008, Phillips formed the supergroup Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) featuring Phillips, Sean Watkins (guitar), his sister Sara Watkins (fiddle), Benmont Tench (piano), Luke Bulla (fiddle), Greg Leisz (various), Pete Thomas (drums), and Davey Faragher (bass). The group released an album in 2009.

In 2008, under the moniker Plover, Phillips recorded an album with Neilson Hubbard and Garrison Starr.

In 2009, Phillips recorded a cover version of The Beatles’ song “I’ll Follow the Sun” for the soundtrack of the film Imagine That.

In April 2018, Phillips signed with Compass Records Group. His 2016 album, Swallowed By the New, was re-released on May 4, 2018, with a new bonus track “Nobody’s Gonna Get Hurt”.

**Read about the Glen is up to now at his website GlenPhillips.com