Bill Callahan - Dream River

will buy this for the sleeve

http://exclaim.ca/images/bill21.jpg

ha that owns

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18866-bill-callahan-have-fun-with-god/

can someone shed some light on "I've got limitations/like Marvin Gaye"?

Thank christ "Sing" doesn't have a flute murdering it. Great song.

http://www.freep.com/article/20131009/ENT04/310090011/

http://rock.rapgenius.com/Bill-callahan-the-sing-lyrics#note-2415360

detroit free press my ass, stupid paywall

here ya go:

http://permanentsmile.tumblr.com/post/63760595214/bill-talks-songwriting-guitar-greatness-and-marvin

thanks Sufjan. i figured it was something like that but thought it may be a specific lyrical reference.

np. Since my partner would prefer not to hear Bill playing in our small apartment, side A of this record has become my every morning ritual. "The Sing" really is awesome, but I don't mind the flute on other tracks. I'm not sure that I prefer the flute, but I don't mind it.

love the flute

sufjan how attached are you to this partner

haha, very! I even enjoy a bit of music disagreement, though.

what's her Bill beef?

she thinks he "talk sings". she has vocal hangups. she's not into Mountain Goats or Silver Jews either. But she saw both Bill and MGs live with me, so I don't think she minds too much. I just give her veto privs so I can maintain my own veto privs. otherwise I'd be hearing THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN a lot more.

I also thing I overplayed A River Ain't Too Much To Love on a roadtrip to San Diego, and she's never quite forgiven me

he does sing talk, that is why he is great

beer.

thank you.

i guess one person's sing talk is another person's jazz flute

all sing talk is prey to some jazz flute

i think the jazz flute works BECAUSE of the sing talk.

is a "brain tree" a real type of tree? a medical term? I know braintree is a town. if you GIS it, you just get a bunch of clip art. it comes up in actual air as well.

also, nerve_pylon otm

all sing talk is prey to some jazz flute

omg

o.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAciq69W5Es

that's more of a talk talk thing

talk talk is into brain trees too

beer?

thank you

the only words i've said today

i haven't spent a lot of time with "have fun with god" but "ride my dub" is pretty great, those spacier middle tracks on "dream river" are better suited for the dub format than the folkier tracks that open and close the album

I love the cover painting. Apparently it's by someone named Paul Ryan. Can anyone link me to a page that actually is about that Paul Ryan and not one of the 500 other artist named Paul Ryan?

http://www.paulryan-artist.com/html/my-home.html - I think he is Australian. Really wonderful painter

I prefer his landscapes over the rest of his work though

yeah he's fucking amazing damn

love his workout photos

link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFBK7DC28jU

I've belatedly come to Bill Callahan fandom, but I still think of him as a strange lovechild of Michael Gira and Garrison Keillor.

And into the barroom
The barroom the barroom
Barroom Barroom

i listened to this album this morning

i listened to it p much every morning on the ride to work for a whole winter

horse or train

Barroom!

Can’t and don’t want to detach this album from a very specific time in my life. Obviously relatively recent, but still. It’s warm and it makes me feel like drinking a beer as the sun goes down on a Sunday afternoon.

Want a new album.

hopefully another one with 'river' in the title because those are top drawer

I've belatedly come to Bill Callahan fandom, but I still think of him as a strange lovechild of Michael Gira and Garrison Keillor.

Bill Callajham slowly ossifies before our ears.s

yea I'm ready for a new album