Love, Music, and The Town Troubadour
Gilmore To Say: A Gilmore Girls Podcast
Tara Llewellyn & Haley McIntosh
4.5 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
After a wonderful conversation with Grant-Lee Phillips himself, we had to do a deep-dive into the best of Stars Hollow’s Town Troubadour! We love what his music, lyrics, and presence adds to the ambiance of the Gilmore girls’ lives. Which episodes does he appear in? How do his songs add to the narrative? And which are our faves? Grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable because Tara and Haley have more to say!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Five, six, seven, eight. |
| 0:01.7 | Trupador. |
| 0:02.7 | It's time to talk about the town troubadour. |
| 0:04.8 | The many town troubadours. |
| 0:06.4 | Yes. |
| 0:07.2 | Okay, here we go. |
| 0:12.0 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:16.7 | Welcome back to Gilmore to Say with Tara and Haley. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Tara. |
| 0:19.1 | This is Haley. |
| 0:19.6 | Hi, Haley. |
| 0:20.8 | Hi, Tara. It's town troubadore. It's Town Tribador a week. It's due a week. Because we just had our interview with Grant Lee Phillips, who, what an angel. I love him so much. He's so wonderful. We had such a great conversation with him on Tuesday. Well, we had a great conversation with him two months ago, but aired on Tuesday. Yeah. It was the last episode. So if you have not listened to that one, |
| 0:42.7 | I highly recommend going back and hearing about his experience, how he got involved, his favorite |
| 0:48.2 | parts, all of it, his whole experience, which was so much fun. He's such a nice guy. He's genuinely just |
| 0:55.0 | a cool guy. I just feel like at peace when I'm in his presence, when I'm having a conversation |
| 1:00.1 | with him. I'm like, yeah, I just feel, I feel at peace. Yeah, like he'd be a good friend. Yeah, |
| 1:05.7 | for sure. Just like a calming presence. And his new album is out, which like if you need a soundtrack for your Gilmore |
| 1:13.5 | Girls fall this one is perfect it is it's a town tributor in your own life yeah grandly |
| 1:19.3 | phillips is his name and um playing and the hour of dust is his game is his game it's true yeah |
| 1:25.7 | in the hour of dust is his new album and it came out last week. |
| 1:29.0 | And actually, I think this week he's going to be here in New York when this episode airs. So I'm really |
| 1:34.2 | excited for that. Yeah, he's just, he's great. If you're interested in seeing him live, |
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