Some good news for Bill Callahan fans. He has a new live album out on Drag City on 23rd March called Rough Travel For A Rare Thing. It’s a career spanning selection of live performances which is no easy feat.
Track Listing:
1. Our Anniversary
2. Diamond Dancer
3. Bowery
4. Held
5. Say Valley Maker
6. In The Pines
7. Cold-Blooded Old Times
8. Rock Bottom Riser
9. Let Me See The Colts
10. The Well
11. Bathysphere
Here’s a taster:
Bowery
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I’m sure all of you know by now that Gil Scott-Heron has a new record (first in 16 years) and the title track is a Smog cover. “I’m New Here” which can be found on 2005’s A River Ain’t Too Much To Love:
Gil Scott-Heron’s version of I’m New Here:
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Gil Scott-Heron features on our Frukie channel and in one of our recent mixes here.
Bill Callahan’s (Smog) version of I’m New Here:
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This will be a limited edition double LP, Vinyl OK? Will also be released digitally but not on CD, from what I can tell.