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Sam Phillips (musician) few days earlier on November 21, Phillips released online an eight-track downloadable EP "Human Contact is Never Easy", including four new tracks ahead of the album "World on Sticks", to be released September 2018. Ahead of the release of "World on Sticks", her first live concert film and album, "Sam Phillips: Live @ Largo at The Coronet", was made available digitally through her website. Phillips married producer and musician T Bone Burnett in 1989, and together they have one daughter, Simone, born in 1997. Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004, and both have since remarried. Phillips has received two Grammy