Grant Lee Buffalo was an American rock band based in Los Angeles, California, United States, consisting of Grant-Lee Phillips (vocals and guitar), Paul Kimble (bass) and Joey Peters (drums).

[1] In the late 1980s, Jeffrey Clark, Grant-Lee Phillips, James Brenner and Joey Peters started as a rock music formation called Shiva Burlesque.

Grant-Lee Phillips, the creative force in the band, brought with him a unique voice that could be both hauntingly gentle and powerful, paired with a sombre storyteller's honesty.

This goes a long way towards explaining how Grant Lee Buffalo were able to make an album as confident and solidly crafted as Fuzzy, combining Phillips' evocative voice and songwriting, with sympathetic accompanists who had a clear idea of how to tap into the mysterious melodic structures of his music.

Phillips and his bandmates, bassist Paul Kimble (also the produces and engineer) and drummer Joey Peters (who has drummed with John Lee Hooker), make use of everything – from pump organs to acquired hunks of metal – to enhance their stories of real America.

Phillips and the band broaden their palette to include vibraphone, violin and a cheesy synthesizer rescued from a thrift store to make Copperopolis a sometimes eccentric, but always rewarding place to visit.

Producer Paul Fox defines a clean, crisp sound for the band, alongside noteworthy guests like Michael Stipe, Robyn Hitchcock and the Wallflowers' Rami Jaffee .

Songs like "Testimony," continue to evoke an utterly unique world composed of American lore, biblical references, literary flair and stirring emotional honesty.

[1] Phillips writes that their first album "would galvanize the sound of Grant Lee Buffalo, i.e., the acoustic feedback howl of overdriven 12-string guitars, melodic distorto-bass, tribal drum bombast, the old world churn of pump organs and parlor pianos.

In the United States, In May 2011 the band returned on a limited tour, making stops in Los Angeles, Dublin, London, Brussels, Copenhagen and Oslo.