yes!Dream River coming out Spet. 17
1. "The Sing"2. "Javelin Unlanding"3. "Small Plane"4. "Spring "5. "Ride My Arrow"6. "Summer Painter"7. "Seagull"8. "Winter Road"
― mizzell, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 4:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i am psyched for the possibility of a bill callahan song called "javelin unlanding"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, June 18, 2013 4:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yesssss
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Tuesday, June 18, 2013 4:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"easily the most sensual and soulful of Callahan's career"
― tylerw, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 6:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
those are some delightful song titles. "The Sing", "Small Plane", "Spring". can't wait for this.
― cajunsunday, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 6:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
look forward to everything this dude does
― nostormo, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 08:16 (ten years ago) link
his new press photo is so smily!
http://blogg.svt.se/psl/files/Bill-Callahan-608x397-583x380.jpg
― mizzell, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
perhaps that is the Dream River behind him
― mizzell, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
that boy needs a haircut
― j., Wednesday, 19 June 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
he looks goofier and less handsome there than in most photos
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
no
his press shots are an interesting history. gonna assume most photos excludes the river guard shot of him shaving.
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Thursday, 20 June 2013 00:19 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/news/51443/ee265778.jpg
― marcos, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
Callahan will hit the road in support of the record this fall, touring across the U.S. Dates below. His backing band will include Matt Kinsey on guitar and Jamie Zuverza on bass. Mick Turner of Dirty Three will open many of the shows.
09-25 Houston, TX - McGonigel's Mucky Duck09-26 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon09-28 Athens, GA - The 40 Watt09-29 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle10-01 Charlottesville, VA - The Jefferson Theater10-02 Washington, DC - Sixth & I Historic Synagogue10-03 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church10-04 Providence, RI - Columbus Theatre10-05 Boston, MA - The Sinclair10-06 New York, NY - Webster Hall10-08 Ithaca, NY - The Haunt10-09 Pittsburgh, PA - The Warhol - Carnegie Lecture Hall10-10 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom10-11 Detroit, MI - Trinosophes10-12 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon10-13 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center10-14 Chicago, IL - Alhambra Palace10-16 St. Louis, MO - Old Rock House10-17 Columbia, MO - Mojo's10-18 Springfield, MO - Outland Ballroom10-19 Norman, OK - The Opolis11-12 Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room *11-13 Pioneertown, CA - Pappy & Harriets *11-14 Los Angeles, CA - The Japan American Theatre *11-15 Santa Barbara, CA - Soho *11-16 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *11-17 San Francisco, CA - The Chapel *11-19 Portland, OR - The Aladdin *11-20 Seattle, WA - Neumos *11-22 Boise, ID - Neurolux11-23 Salt Lake City, UT - The State Room11-25 Denver, CO - The Oriental Theater
* with Mick Turner
― marcos, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
wonderful artwork. really excited for this album/tour.
i was talking about this on the chicago thread bc i'd never heard of the alhambra palace before but it looks like it's a huge moroccan restaurant? pretty cool looking actually. i'll probably go to the show.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
i pretty much never go to shows for various reasons (infant son, full-time work, etc.) but i'll certainly go to this
― marcos, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
ha ditto
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
also really excited that matt kinsey is playing on this record, his work on apocalypse was amazing
― marcos, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
idk about the artwork. it's..trying too hard..
the fonts of his name are awesome though
― nostormo, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
mick turner support is a treat. wish i could get to one of these.
i am assuming this is the guy who did the apocalypse sleeve, i wish the BILL CALLAHAN was written as texturally unobtrusively as on that but it's nice, yeah
― szarkasm (schlump), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
alright, a denver show!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
i am not a fan of that cover
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
coming to Santa Barbara! been frequently revisiting 'sometimes I wish we were an eagle' lately since it and Tusk are the only CDs in my car
― sausagehat (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
you want a different dream river, go ahead and have one, this is callahan's dream river
― j., Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
ha
― marcos, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
dude likes rivers, no doubt. not his first river title, even. frequently refers to himself as a river. frankly, I'd be damned surprised if n/a could supply a better river than a guy with so many river credentials
― sausagehat (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
I love the cover, just not the font on the bottom. Otherwise, it's a beaut.
Dude is not playing anywhere near me, natch, but this is one of my most anticipated 2013 releases. Very psyched.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
"I love the cover, just not the font on the bottom. Otherwise, it's a beaut."
yeah it looks so odd and unresolved and that's coming from someone who thinks complaining about fonts is a weird affectation that must stop.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
yeah odd and unresolved i dunno do we know anyone like that
― j., Tuesday, 9 July 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
i was talking about this on the chicago thread bc i'd never heard of the alhambra palace before but it looks like it's a huge moroccan restaurant? pretty cool looking actually. i'll probably go to the show.― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, July 9, 2013 11:32 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, July 9, 2013 11:32 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
went to a wedding party there, it's great. and good food, actually.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link
yea i like the hand-brushed title but i'm not crazy about the font for his name. in any case yes this is also probably my most anticipated 2013 album.
― marcos, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link
so i'm in the minority here?
― nostormo, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
btw there's an imminent documentary
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/apocalypse-a-bill-callahan-tour-film
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
morbius i haven't seen that documentary but i think it came out last year, right?
― marcos, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
dunno, first I've heard of it.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
You had to Kickstart to see it. It's good, worth seeing.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, July 10, 2013 9:12 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i saw it, it's kind of boring i think.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link
yeah
― szarkasm (schlump), Thursday, 11 July 2013 00:20 (ten years ago) link
tylerrrrrr, your denver show is w/the howling hex!
11/25/13 Oriental Theater Denver CO w/ The Howling Hex
― szarkasm (schlump), Thursday, 11 July 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
radical. was wondering if hagerty was still in the area, the hex haven't played here in a while.
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 July 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link
Expanding Dub / Highs In The Mid-40s Dub. VINYL FORMAT. Two dub versions of songs from Callahan's forthcoming Dream River album on Drag City due in September.
― szarkasm (schlump), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
Wanna hear those dubs.
I have in front of me an opportunity to go see this man at a place called Pappy and Harriet's Pioneertown Palace, just outside Joshua Tree. An outdoor venue that encourages bbqin' under the stars. It's a two and a half hour drive from where I am, and I'd probably have to do a half day at work the next day in order to fully enjoy myself. But I'm thinking I should take this opportunity despite the costs.
― del griffith, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 01:36 (ten years ago) link
Thought that Apocalypse doc was solid! Then I saw it projected outdoors while eating tacos and drinking beer and Callahan played a few songs at the end.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 01:39 (ten years ago) link
album title is making me want to hear callahan sing "moon river"
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 01:48 (ten years ago) link
del griffith that sounds like an awesome opportunity!
― marcos, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 13:31 (ten years ago) link
pappy and harriet's is GREAT do it do it
― Rothko's Chicken and Waffles (donna rouge), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 14:32 (ten years ago) link
The dub track is kind of really awesome:
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/listen-up-the-singer-songwriter-bill-callahan-makes-a-foray-into-dub/?smid=tw-share&_r=1&
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
coolHe said the resonant conga beat that drives “Javelin Unlanding” lent itself to a dub makeover.
this makes me excited for the album version
― mizzell, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
lol i'd really prefer to hear the album version first. ha i'm not sure that the dub format suits callahan that great? i always appreciate how honest the production is on recent albums, esp. apocalypse, his voice comes across so clean that i don't really feel like i need/want spacey dub effects. i mean, i love dub, but callahan satisfies other needs i have and not my spacey dub needs
― marcos, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link
(“Some people feel the taste of pilgrim guts are too strong/I find I can’t get by without it for too long” goes one line on the new album)
― szarkasm (schlump), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/event/music/221100223/bill-callahan-sings-small-plane-in-a-big-city
― @twitizensforlemonlipbalm (schlump), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
awesome
― will.i.an (cajunsunday), Thursday, 12 September 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
yeah, sounds great.
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 September 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9658010/bill-callahan-new-album-dream-river
― mizzell, Friday, 13 September 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i wanna read that boxing bio now
― @twitizensforlemonlipbalm (schlump), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
o.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAciq69W5Es
― That's So (Eazy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link
that's more of a talk talk thing
― the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 15 February 2014 00:38 (ten years ago) link
talk talk is into brain trees too
beer?
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Saturday, 15 February 2014 01:23 (ten years ago) link
thank you
― the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 15 February 2014 01:56 (ten years ago) link
the only words i've said today
― gbx, Saturday, 15 February 2014 04:38 (ten years ago) link
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
― marcos, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
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?
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
http://www.paulryan-artist.com/html/my-home.html - I think he is Australian. Really wonderful painter
― marcos, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
I prefer his landscapes over the rest of his work though
― marcos, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
yeah he's fucking amazing damn
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
love his workout photos
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 March 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
link?
― marcos, Thursday, 20 March 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFBK7DC28jU
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Saturday, 25 July 2015 00:28 (eight years ago) link
I've belatedly come to Bill Callahan fandom, but I still think of him as a strange lovechild of Michael Gira and Garrison Keillor.
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Saturday, 25 July 2015 03:38 (eight years ago) link
And into the barroomThe barroom the barroomBarroom Barroom
― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 2 August 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link
i listened to this album this morning
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 2 August 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
i listened to it p much every morning on the ride to work for a whole winter
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Sunday, 2 August 2015 23:01 (eight years ago) link
horse or train
― j., Sunday, 2 August 2015 23:15 (eight years ago) link
Barroom!
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 3 December 2017 00:55 (six years ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Sunday, 3 December 2017 01:02 (six years ago) link
hopefully another one with 'river' in the title because those are top drawer
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 3 December 2017 01:05 (six years ago) link
― circa1916, Sunday, 3 December 2017 01:06 (six years ago) link
Bill Callajham slowly ossifies before our ears.s
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 3 December 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
yea I'm ready for a new album
― marcos, Sunday, 3 December 2017 01:19 (six years ago) link
Still feel vaguely embarrassed about the time I saw him at a screening of his documentary and I caught him in passing and said something useless like “Hey, I love your work and thanks for doing this” and shook his hand with a totally gross, sticky hand that I recently spilled beer on.
― circa1916, Sunday, 3 December 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
i've never gotten into this one
― j., Sunday, 3 December 2017 04:05 (six years ago) link
― circa1916, Sunday, 3 December 2017 06:31 (six years ago) link
Summer Painter is still a damn masterpiece
― ciderpress, Sunday, 3 December 2017 06:56 (six years ago) link
Totally. I live in some of these songs.
― circa1916, Sunday, 3 December 2017 07:02 (six years ago) link
Where the fuck did he disappear really?
It's been a long while since the last album.
― nostormo, Sunday, 3 December 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
didn't he just play a few shows recently? bet there's a new record in 2018.
― tylerw, Sunday, 3 December 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
check the barroom
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 3 December 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
baroom baroom!
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Sunday, 3 December 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
Yeah he's played some shows here and there.
He doesn't even have an official website apart from the Drag City one, is that correct?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 3 December 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
he's played a few shows but he also got married and had a kid
― marcos, Sunday, 3 December 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
Isn't he with H4nly Banks any more? They married some years ago iirc
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 3 December 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
(oh you mean since the last record, gotcha)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 3 December 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
he sure gets the pretty ladies.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
Wow had no idea about the marriage n kid
― circa1916, Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
She filmed the 'Apocalypse' docu about him.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
Was that ever released? Is it any good?
― Moodles, Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
xp Oh I knew they were a couple, came up at the screening. Didn’t know that it got that serious.The doc is great, yeah. Assume it’s out in digital/Blu-ray/DVD format.
― circa1916, Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
you can watch it here for a few dollars https://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/517810/Apocalypse-A-Bill-Callahan-Tour-Film
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
this is the only one I unambiguously love the whole way through, inc smog, though I haven’t heard all of those
― sciatica, Sunday, 3 December 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
I've heard and enjoyed just about everything he's ever done but I wouldn't hesitate to say that this one is my favorite.
― cwkiii, Sunday, 3 December 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
this is really wonderful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQUvbDY8fuw
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
agree
― gbx, Sunday, 24 December 2017 05:24 (six years ago) link
I discovered this album earlier this year and have been loving it during lockdown. This week I discovered the dub versions, which have taken my love to a higher level. Strong feeling of John Martyn circa "Small Hours".
― fetter, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 20:41 (three years ago) link
Have Fun With God is so good--I went straight for it and never looked back (mind, not that it's precisely the same thing but I likewise love No Protection and never listen to Protection proper)
― call mr zbow that's my name that name again is mr zbow (Craig D.), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link