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
is it just me or has his critical profile really grown in recent years?
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
like maybe since the transition from smog to bill callahan?
i think his records have gotten more listener friendly (and i don't mean that as a negative thing), so the npr crowd might be more into him.
― tylerw, Friday, 13 September 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
true, prob a combo of more listener-friendly albums and just sticking around putting out consistently good stuff for a long time
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
yeah and it's a rare instance where his transition into a somewhat more traditional performer/songwriter sheds a new light on all of his previous stuff? not sure if that makes sense.
― tylerw, Friday, 13 September 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
anyway, speaking of previous stuff, this tumblr (which i think has been mentioned elsewhere) has been posting some of callahan's old zine writingshttp://fuckinrecordreviews.tumblr.com/tagged/Bill-Callahan
― tylerw, Friday, 13 September 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
gahh i like reading stuff about bill callahan because i like bill callahan but that grantland piece is really annoying
― marcos, Friday, 13 September 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
It's just that his wit tends toward the dry ("A Man Needs a Woman or a Man to Be a Man")
like, why is this "dry" wit?
― marcos, Friday, 13 September 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link
(i love that lyric btw)
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