Bill Callahan - Dream River

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)