Grant Lee Buffalo

Grant Lee Buffalo
Grant Lee Buffalo, 1996
Background information
Origin	Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres	Alternative rock, Americana
Years active	1991-1998, 2011
Labels	Slash Records Warner Bros. Records
Website	grantleebuffalo.com
Past members	Grant-Lee Phillips Paul Kimble Joey Peters

Grant Lee Buffalo is a rock band based in Los Angeles, California, consisting of Grant-Lee Phillips (vocals and guitar), Paul Kimble (bass) and Joey Peters (drums). All three were previously members of another Los Angeles band, Shiva Burlesque.

Grant-Lee Phillips, Paul Kimble and Joey Peters started as a rock music formation called Shiva Burlesque. The band was active in the late 1980s. It released two studio albums, the self-titled Shiva Burlesque in 1987 on Fundamental Records. The follow up album, the band's second and actually last album was Mercury Blues and was released in 1990 on Ripple Effect record label. Shiva Burlesque was reformed in 1991 as Grant Lee Buffalo.

Grant Lee Buffalo released four albums: Fuzzy (1993), Mighty Joe Moon (1994), Copperopolis (1996) and Jubilee (1998). They toured with major bands including R.E.M., Pearl Jam, the Smashing Pumpkins, and The Cranberries. In the United States, the band's 1998 single, “Truly, Truly” received extensive airplay.

Paul Kimble departed the band in 1997, but Grant Lee Buffalo's next album Jubilee met with more success than the prior releases thanks to "Truly, Truly." But, as Phillips describes, a number of changes led to the dissolution of the band's time at their label and their time together.

In 2001, a compilation of singles, album tracks and rarities called Storm Hymnal was released.