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Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest handles the vicissitudes of love and life with inimitable tact and charm as only Callahan can, resulting in a career-high that listeners are sure to return to for sanctum and solace for many years to come.

Bill Callahan reveals a new video for Javelin Unlanding in which he takes shape as the moon, surveying the earth below. Watch it here and get those tour dates in your diary.

Thomas heads out on an apocalyptic night to catch Bill Callahan performing in Bristol, an unforgettable evening that was worth braving the stormy weather for.

Bill Callahan enters the temple of Dub on his latest offering ‘Have Fun with God’…re-imagined dub versions last years ‘Dream River’…not the huge transition you maybe think but we like it.

Bill Callahan has released a new video for Small Plane taken from his latest LP/CD “Dream River”. It features a silent movie in which Bill plays a tyrant factory manager.

Bill Callahan’s latest offering: ‘Dream River’ is another stunning chapter, an album where nothing shouts but everything works.

Our Song of the Day is Expanding Dub, Bill Callahan’s re-imagined take on the song ‘Javelin Unlanding’ from his new album Dream River.

Cold Specks is the moniker of the young female Canadian singer Al Spx, despite having an incredibly unique and soulful voice that has been compared to Mahalia Jackson and Sister Rosetta Tharpeshe she didn’t get the hype in Toronto that she’s now getting in the UK. It wasn’t until she moved to London about a year and a half ago to record her debut album I Predict A Graceful Expulsion …

Our song of the day is Bill Callahan’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘So Long, Marianne’. In other news, Bill Callahan is to release a new 7″ cover of the late Mickey Newbury’s “Heaven Help The Child”.

In contrast to a career spanning two decades and over a dozen recorded albums – including those as his earlier moniker Smog – to his name, Bill Callahan is a man of surprising few words onstage. It’s forgivable however, as captured in his dry wit and deep seated vocal wisdom are enough tales of surrealist simplicity to make up.

This is an excellent album, and one that provides a vivid visualisation of salty sea and sunrise. A story of America as narrated by a 21st Century voice that feels so wisely ancestoral in its huskiness.

Last night, Drag City released an insight into the new Bill Callahan album, Apocalypse. The album contains seven tracks or Seven Messages: The soul of your country called and left you a message. Seven messages. Hear the track Baby’s Breath below.