Sam Phillips continues her tour of the States with two stops in New York City this week: this evening, a free in-store performance and signing at Sound Fix in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and tomorrow night a concert at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village.

As we reported yesterday, Sam's performance at the Rams Head in Annapolis, Maryland, was broadcast live earlier this week on npr.org for All Songs Considered and is now archived on the site. The Washington Post review of the concert says Sam was "attuned to the key of imagination," and Post writer Mike Joyce reports that it was "filled with soulful musings, dreamy love songs and dispatches from 'the edge of the world.'"

He finds Sam as ever "drawn to themes of faith and hope," and with her more recent songwriting, as on her latest album, Don't Do Anything, she "has become more distinctive, literate, and evocative."

As Joyce describes her performance in Annapolis:

Playing acoustic and electric guitars, she was backed by a trio that used violin, keyboards, guitars and mallets to create a resonating weave of sounds that evoked everything from Weimar-era cabaret and Asian fan dances to feverish torch and twang.

To read the full concert review, visit washingtonpost.com.