Bill Callahan - Dream River

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

his new press photo is so smily!

http://blogg.svt.se/psl/files/Bill-Callahan-608x397-583x380.jpg

perhaps that is the Dream River behind him

that boy needs a haircut

he looks goofier and less handsome there than in most photos

no

his press shots are an interesting history. gonna assume most photos excludes the river guard shot of him shaving.

http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/news/51443/ee265778.jpg

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 Duck
09-26 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
09-28 Athens, GA - The 40 Watt
09-29 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle
10-01 Charlottesville, VA - The Jefferson Theater
10-02 Washington, DC - Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
10-03 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
10-04 Providence, RI - Columbus Theatre
10-05 Boston, MA - The Sinclair
10-06 New York, NY - Webster Hall
10-08 Ithaca, NY - The Haunt
10-09 Pittsburgh, PA - The Warhol - Carnegie Lecture Hall
10-10 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
10-11 Detroit, MI - Trinosophes
10-12 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
10-13 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center
10-14 Chicago, IL - Alhambra Palace
10-16 St. Louis, MO - Old Rock House
10-17 Columbia, MO - Mojo's
10-18 Springfield, MO - Outland Ballroom
10-19 Norman, OK - The Opolis
11-12 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 - Neurolux
11-23 Salt Lake City, UT - The State Room
11-25 Denver, CO - The Oriental Theater

* with Mick Turner

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.

i pretty much never go to shows for various reasons (infant son, full-time work, etc.) but i'll certainly go to this

ha ditto

also really excited that matt kinsey is playing on this record, his work on apocalypse was amazing

idk about the artwork. it's..trying too hard..

the fonts of his name are awesome though

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

alright, a denver show!

i am not a fan of that cover

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

you want a different dream river, go ahead and have one, this is callahan's dream river

ha

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

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.

"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.

yeah odd and unresolved i dunno do we know anyone like that

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

went to a wedding party there, it's great. and good food, actually.

I love the cover, just not the font on the bottom. Otherwise, it's a beaut.

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.

so i'm in the minority here?

btw there's an imminent documentary

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/apocalypse-a-bill-callahan-tour-film

morbius i haven't seen that documentary but i think it came out last year, right?

dunno, first I've heard of it.

You had to Kickstart to see it. It's good, worth seeing.

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, July 10, 2013 9:12 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i saw it, it's kind of boring i think.

yeah

tylerrrrrr, your denver show is w/the howling hex!

11/25/13 Oriental Theater Denver CO w/ The Howling Hex

radical. was wondering if hagerty was still in the area, the hex haven't played here in a while.

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.

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.

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.

album title is making me want to hear callahan sing "moon river"

del griffith that sounds like an awesome opportunity!

pappy and harriet's is GREAT do it do it

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&

cool
He said the resonant conga beat that drives “Javelin Unlanding” lent itself to a dub makeover.

this makes me excited for the album version

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

(“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)

http://www.npr.org/event/music/221100223/bill-callahan-sings-small-plane-in-a-big-city

awesome

yeah, sounds great.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9658010/bill-callahan-new-album-dream-river

yeah, i wanna read that boxing bio now

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

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.

i've never gotten into this one

Bill Callajham slowly ossifies before our ears.s

Summer Painter is still a damn masterpiece

Totally. I live in some of these songs.

Where the fuck did he disappear really?

It's been a long while since the last album.

didn't he just play a few shows recently? bet there's a new record in 2018.

check the barroom

baroom baroom!

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?

he's played a few shows but he also got married and had a kid

Isn't he with H4nly Banks any more? They married some years ago iirc

(oh you mean since the last record, gotcha)

he sure gets the pretty ladies.

Wow had no idea about the marriage n kid

She filmed the 'Apocalypse' docu about him.

Was that ever released? Is it any good?

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.

you can watch it here for a few dollars https://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/517810/Apocalypse-A-Bill-Callahan-Tour-Film

i've never gotten into this one

this is the only one I unambiguously love the whole way through, inc smog, though I haven’t heard all of those

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.

this is really wonderful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQUvbDY8fuw

agree

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".

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)

Bill Callahan talking about about punk and dub and hiphop he listened to growing up in Maryland plus lyrics writing and other stuff in an interview by Joshua Minsoo Kim

https://open.substack.com/pub/toneglow/p/tone-glow-158-bill-callahan?r=2ck8a&utm_medium=ios