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submitted by Nick Jan 23rd 2009 06:01 pm (www.pitchforkmedia.com)
Photo by Drew KatchenTuba-voiced depressive Bill Callahan used to call himself Smog, but he's been going by his given name ever since 2007's Woke on a Whaleheart. That change in moniker was supposed to signal a transition to happier music (or, at least, to less cripplingly bitter music), but in the time since Whaleheart, he broke up with Joanna Newsom, and now she's going out with fucking Andy Samberg. So we'll see just how committed to positivity Callahan still is on April 14, when his longtime label Drag City releases Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle, Callahan's second album under his government name. That grammatically convoluted title makes its own kind of sense. Eagles, after all, don't generally have to worry about losing their girlfriends to sketch comics.
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Bill Callahan has blessed us this year. All summer, every Monday, the artist formerly known as Smog released a new song, compiling them all into a stellar new collection called Gold Record once Labor Day rolled around. Then, without announcing or explaining himself, he's spent the fall dropping weekly covers in tandem with his longtime…
Bill Callahan and Bonnie "Prince" Billy, two kindred spirits and Drag City icons, have been reconvening every week to share a new cover with a little help from their friends. They covered Cat Stevens' "Blackness Of The Night" with AZITA, they covered Hank Williams Jr.'s "OD’d In Denver" with Chavez guitarist Matt Sweeney, and they…
Every week, Bill Callahan and Bonnie "Prince" Billy have been teaming up with a fellow Drag City artist to cover a different song from a previous decade. First they covered Cat Stevens' 1967 track "Blackness Of The Night" with AZITA. Then they did Hank Williams Jr.'s 1979 track "OD’d In Denver" with Will Oldham's old…


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