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Bill Callahan - 2020 - Gold Record
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Ik volg Bill Callahan al heel lang en er was weer een nieuw album. In The Guardian stond onderstaande tekst en eigenlijk kan ik daar weinig aan toevoegen. Ge- en – weldig.
Time to join the pantheon of great American singer-songwriters.
Continuing one of music’s great about-turns, the undersung one-time misanthrope releases an album abundant in warmth and empathy
Bill Callahan, the cult US singer-songwriter, isn’t fond of weddings. Even when it’s his wife’s friends who are getting hitched, he feels a disconnect and just gets drunk and eats the free food.
“I started thinking [that] the angel of the wedding ceremony is the limo driver,” he noted in a recent livestreamed radio session with the US station KEXP, in advance of his new album, Gold Record, out this week. The limo driver “whisks you away” from “this purgatory” and into “a new life”. “That’s a beautiful position to be in – the bearer, the one who bears you away like that.”
The first song on this still undersung artist’s latest set tells of such an angel. Like many of Callahan’s best songs – his enviable body of work spans 30 years and only grows in nuance – Pigeons is a short story, one of nine here told in impressionistic snatches.
“The pigeons ate the wedding rice and exploded somewhere over San Anton… io,” is an opening that grabs the listener’s attention. Later, though, the groom will ask for advice. The limo driver’s reply crystallises the thrust of Callahan’s work of the last few years.
“When you are dating, you only see each other, and the rest of us can go to hell,” Callahan’s chauffeur muses. “But when you are married, you are married to the whole wide world, the rich, the poor, the sick and the well.”
Callahan might dislike weddings, but here and elsewhere in his recent work the vow “I do” implies a willingness to be plugged into the wider human experience, a major change for a songwriter known previously for his spare, often misanthropic poetry. His last album, the universally acclaimed Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest (2019), found solace in his own marriage, home and fatherhood. He captured the sea change with bone-dry understatement: “the panic room is now a nursery”. Gold Record is Shepherd’s… equal, at least. And although many of the songs date from earlier in Callahan’s writing, the thaw in his cool is irreversible.
Tracklist:
01. Pigeons
02. Another Song
03. 35
04. Protest Song
05. The Mackenzies
06. Let's Move to the Country
07. Breakfast
08. Cowboy
09. Ry Cooder
10. As I Wander
Staat er compleet op, 20% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster.
“Muziek is kunst en kunst moet voor iedereen bereikbaar zijn, anders is het elitair.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQp3nZe6kI4&feature=emb_logo
Time to join the pantheon of great American singer-songwriters.
Continuing one of music’s great about-turns, the undersung one-time misanthrope releases an album abundant in warmth and empathy
Bill Callahan, the cult US singer-songwriter, isn’t fond of weddings. Even when it’s his wife’s friends who are getting hitched, he feels a disconnect and just gets drunk and eats the free food.
“I started thinking [that] the angel of the wedding ceremony is the limo driver,” he noted in a recent livestreamed radio session with the US station KEXP, in advance of his new album, Gold Record, out this week. The limo driver “whisks you away” from “this purgatory” and into “a new life”. “That’s a beautiful position to be in – the bearer, the one who bears you away like that.”
The first song on this still undersung artist’s latest set tells of such an angel. Like many of Callahan’s best songs – his enviable body of work spans 30 years and only grows in nuance – Pigeons is a short story, one of nine here told in impressionistic snatches.
“The pigeons ate the wedding rice and exploded somewhere over San Anton… io,” is an opening that grabs the listener’s attention. Later, though, the groom will ask for advice. The limo driver’s reply crystallises the thrust of Callahan’s work of the last few years.
“When you are dating, you only see each other, and the rest of us can go to hell,” Callahan’s chauffeur muses. “But when you are married, you are married to the whole wide world, the rich, the poor, the sick and the well.”
Callahan might dislike weddings, but here and elsewhere in his recent work the vow “I do” implies a willingness to be plugged into the wider human experience, a major change for a songwriter known previously for his spare, often misanthropic poetry. His last album, the universally acclaimed Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest (2019), found solace in his own marriage, home and fatherhood. He captured the sea change with bone-dry understatement: “the panic room is now a nursery”. Gold Record is Shepherd’s… equal, at least. And although many of the songs date from earlier in Callahan’s writing, the thaw in his cool is irreversible.
Tracklist:
01. Pigeons
02. Another Song
03. 35
04. Protest Song
05. The Mackenzies
06. Let's Move to the Country
07. Breakfast
08. Cowboy
09. Ry Cooder
10. As I Wander
Staat er compleet op, 20% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster.
“Muziek is kunst en kunst moet voor iedereen bereikbaar zijn, anders is het elitair.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQp3nZe6kI4&feature=emb_logo
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