Bill Callahan

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Jim Cain 00:00 Tools
Honeymoon Child 00:00 Tools
Too Many Birds 00:00 Tools
Eid Ma Clack Shaw 04:19 Tools
Rococo Zephyr 05:42 Tools
My Friend 00:00 Tools
The Wind and the Dove 00:00 Tools
All Thoughts are Prey to Some Beast 00:00 Tools
Riding For the Feeling 00:00 Tools
Faith/Void 09:45 Tools
Drover 05:24 Tools
Invocation of Ratiocination 02:42 Tools
Baby's Breath 00:00 Tools
The Breeze / My Baby Cries 00:00 Tools
America! 02:06 Tools
Diamond Dancer 00:00 Tools
Javelin Unlanding 03:49 Tools
Sycamore 05:35 Tools
Free's 03:14 Tools
Universal Applicant 00:00 Tools
One Fine Morning 08:46 Tools
The Sing 04:57 Tools
Call Me Mister (Call Me Mister / Original Broadway Cast) 00:00 Tools
Small Plane 03:57 Tools
Spring 05:11 Tools
The Breeze/My Baby Cries 06:24 Tools
Ride My Arrow 05:03 Tools
From the Rivers to the Ocean 00:00 Tools
Summer Painter 06:30 Tools
Seagull 05:40 Tools
Footprints 00:00 Tools
Winter Road 05:29 Tools
For a Rainbow 00:00 Tools
The Wheel 00:00 Tools
Night 00:00 Tools
A Man Needs a Woman or a Man to Be a Man 05:14 Tools
Day 00:00 Tools
The Ballad of the Hulk 00:00 Tools
Black Dog on the Beach 00:00 Tools
747 00:00 Tools
Angela 00:00 Tools
Shepherd’s Welcome 00:00 Tools
Our Anniversary 00:00 Tools
Writing 00:00 Tools
Morning is My Godmother 00:00 Tools
Lapse 00:00 Tools
What Comes After Certainty 03:43 Tools
Watch me get married 00:00 Tools
Released 00:00 Tools
Young Icarus 00:00 Tools
Son of the Sea 00:00 Tools
Bowery 00:00 Tools
Confederate Jasmine 00:00 Tools
Call me anything 00:00 Tools
Camels 00:00 Tools
Highs In The Mid-40's Dub 00:00 Tools
Held 00:00 Tools
Say Valley Maker 00:00 Tools
Thank Dub 00:00 Tools
Circles 00:00 Tools
Rock Bottom Riser 00:00 Tools
Cold-Blooded Old Times 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Valley 00:00 Tools
In the Pines 00:00 Tools
When We Let Go 00:00 Tools
Let Me See the Colts 00:00 Tools
Expanding Dub 00:00 Tools
Easy Wind 00:00 Tools
The Beast 00:00 Tools
Bathysphere 00:00 Tools
Tugboats and Tumbleweeds 00:00 Tools
The Well 00:00 Tools
Call Me Mister 00:00 Tools
Small Dub 00:00 Tools
Call It Dub 00:00 Tools
Ride My Dub 00:00 Tools
Summer Dub 00:00 Tools
So Long Marianne 05:17 Tools
Transforming Dub 05:50 Tools
Santa Maria 03:44 Tools
If You Could Touch Her At All 00:00 Tools
08 - Night 00:00 Tools
07 - Day 00:00 Tools
Call Me Mister - Call Me Mister / Original Broadway Cast 00:00 Tools
Shepherd's Welcome 00:00 Tools
Heaven Help The Child 00:00 Tools
Highs In The Mid-40s Dub 00:00 Tools
Taken 04:25 Tools
River Guard 00:00 Tools
Bill Callahan - All Thoughts Are Prey To Some Beast 00:00 Tools
Bill Callahan - Drover 00:00 Tools
So Long Marianne (Leonard Cohen Cover) 00:00 Tools
Tugboats & Tumbleweeds 00:00 Tools
Shepherds Welcome 00:00 Tools
Cold Blooded Old Times 00:00 Tools
Our Anniversary (Live) 00:00 Tools
Wheel 00:00 Tools
Diamond Dancer (Live) 04:00 Tools
Rock Bottom Riser (live) 00:00 Tools
Bowery (Live) 00:00 Tools
Santa Maria (Versus cover) 00:00 Tools
Cold-Blooded Old Times (Live) 00:00 Tools
Eid Ma Clack Shaw (with lyrics) 00:00 Tools
In the Pines (Live) 00:00 Tools
Honeymoon Child (Daytrotter session) 00:00 Tools
Held (Live) 00:00 Tools
I Break Horses 00:00 Tools
Say Valley Maker (Live) 00:00 Tools
873 All Thoughts Are Prey To Some Beasts 00:00 Tools
Bathysphere (Live) 00:00 Tools
Let Me See the Colts (Live) 00:00 Tools
Santa Maria (Versus) 00:00 Tools
The Well (Live) 00:00 Tools
Ballad of the Hulk 00:00 Tools
Small Plane (NPR garden version) 00:00 Tools
Hit The Ground Running 00:00 Tools
Eid Ma Clack Shaw (Live Session Version) 00:00 Tools
NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert 00:00 Tools
Morning Is My Grandmother 00:00 Tools
Faith\Void 09:45 Tools
My Friend (with lyrics) 00:00 Tools
I Feel Like The Mother Of The World 00:00 Tools
Teenage Spaceship 00:00 Tools
09 - Faith-Void 00:00 Tools
I'm New Here 00:00 Tools
Blood Red Bird 00:00 Tools
Dress Sexy At My Funeral 00:00 Tools
the breeze 00:00 Tools
[banter] 00:00 Tools
Vessel In Vain 00:00 Tools
Spring (from Dream River, 2013) 00:00 Tools
nothing rises to meet me 00:00 Tools
Tiny Desk Concert 00:00 Tools
All Thoughts Are Prey To Some Beasts 00:00 Tools
Santa Maria - Bill Callahan 00:00 Tools
Let's Move To The Country 00:00 Tools
One Fine orning 00:00 Tools
Radio Sessions 00:00 Tools
1364 Drover 00:00 Tools
07 Day 00:00 Tools
Palimpsest 00:00 Tools
Bill Callahan - Diamond Dancer 00:00 Tools
Jim Cain (Live at Third Man Records) 00:00 Tools
Spring (Live at Third Man Records) 00:00 Tools
So Long, Marianne 00:00 Tools
Ride My Arrow (Live at Third Man Records) 00:00 Tools
Natural Decline 00:00 Tools
The Sing - Dream River (2013) 00:00 Tools
“America” 00:00 Tools
[crowd] 00:00 Tools
Drinking At The Dam 00:00 Tools
Bloodflow 00:00 Tools
Running The Loping 00:00 Tools
I Was a Stranger 00:00 Tools
[Encore Break] 00:00 Tools
Bill Callahan - Heaven Help The Child (single) 00:00 Tools
One Fine Morning (Live at Third Man Records) 00:00 Tools
Chosen One 00:00 Tools
Drover 5:24 00:00 Tools
The breeze/my baby cries (OST "Youth/Молодость") 00:00 Tools
Left Only With Love 00:00 Tools
Small Panic 00:00 Tools
Drover (Live at Third Man Records) 00:00 Tools
Riding for the Feeling (Live at Third Man Records) 00:00 Tools
crowd 00:00 Tools
Truth serum 00:00 Tools
If You Could Touch Her at All (Lee Clayton/Waylon Jennings cover) 03:31 Tools
Cold Discovery 00:00 Tools
To Be of Use 00:00 Tools
Dream River 00:00 Tools
09. FaithVoid 00:00 Tools
Feather by feather 00:00 Tools
02 Javelin Unlanding 00:00 Tools
No Dancing 00:00 Tools
Red Apples 00:00 Tools
Eid Ma Clack Shaw (Daytrotter session) 00:00 Tools
Easily Led 00:00 Tools
Inspirational 00:00 Tools
Sweet Treat 00:00 Tools
Bill Callahan - Eid Ma Clack Shaw 00:00 Tools
I Could Drive Forever 00:00 Tools
05 Riding for the Feeling 00:00 Tools
Red Apple Falls 00:00 Tools
Drag City, Truth Serum 00:00 Tools
Justice Aversion 00:00 Tools
untitled 00:00 Tools
07 One Fine Morning 00:00 Tools
Strayed 00:00 Tools
ex-con 00:00 Tools
Prince Alone In The Studio 00:00 Tools
So Long Marianne Bill Callahan 00:00 Tools
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Void 00:00 Tools
finer days 00:00 Tools
John Tyler: Hindsight Falls On Deaf Ears 00:00 Tools
You Moved In 00:00 Tools
All Your Women Things 00:00 Tools
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09 faith_void 00:00 Tools
Lapse - Bill Callahan 00:00 Tools
The Morning Paper 00:00 Tools
The Breeze-My Baby Cries 00:00 Tools
Eid Ma Clack Sha (New Song) 00:00 Tools
A Man Needs a Woman Or... 00:00 Tools
Highs in the Mid-'40s Dub 00:00 Tools
encore break 00:00 Tools
Bill Callahan - Footprints 00:00 Tools
La Route du Rock 2009 00:00 Tools
It's Rough 00:00 Tools
The Hard Road 00:00 Tools
Four Hearts In A Can 00:00 Tools
Ride My Arrow I A Pocket Party 00:00 Tools
Too Many Birds (Album Recording) 00:00 Tools
Sleepy Joe 00:00 Tools
03 Small Plane 00:00 Tools
Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest ALBUM REVIEW 00:00 Tools
All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Be 00:00 Tools
Butterflies drowned in wine 00:00 Tools
A Guiding Light 00:00 Tools
your face 00:00 Tools
Lazy Rain 00:00 Tools
Said the Gramophone's Best of 2009, The Breeze / My Baby Cries 00:00 Tools
Heaven Help the Child (Mickey Newbury Cover) 00:00 Tools
Somewhere In The Night 00:00 Tools
04 Spring 00:00 Tools
Permanent Smile 00:00 Tools
Distance 00:00 Tools
Nineteen 00:00 Tools
Dirty Pants 00:00 Tools
Zero Degrees 00:00 Tools
01 The Sing 00:00 Tools
fools lament 00:00 Tools
06 Summer Painter 00:00 Tools
Stalled On The Tracks 00:00 Tools
Thank (Dub) 00:00 Tools
05 Ride My Arrow 00:00 Tools
Frees 00:00 Tools
Short Drive 00:00 Tools
Faith, Void 00:00 Tools
Full Performance 00:00 Tools
Drag City, Free's 00:00 Tools
09rock bottom riser 00:00 Tools
Nothing Rises To Meet Me (Live Acoustic Session Version) 00:00 Tools
Morality 00:00 Tools
Devotion 00:00 Tools
Npr - Tiny Desk Concert 00:00 Tools
Small Place 00:00 Tools
Everything You Touch Becomes A Crutch 00:00 Tools
07 Seagull 00:00 Tools
Spread Your Bloody Wings 00:00 Tools
Lize 00:00 Tools
10dress sexy at my funeral 00:00 Tools
The Breeze/My Baby Cries (Kat Bloom Cover) 00:00 Tools
guard 00:00 Tools
The Breeze/ My Baby Cries 00:00 Tools
Extra Blues 00:00 Tools
Carmelite Light 00:00 Tools
Keep Some Steady Friends Around 00:00 Tools
Vessel In Vain (Live Acoustic Session Version) 00:00 Tools
The Girl On The Billboard 00:00 Tools
Jim Cain 00:00 Tools
Please Send Me Someone To Love 00:00 Tools
Drag City, A Man Needs a Woman or a Man to Be a Man 00:00 Tools
05sycamore 00:00 Tools
03blood red bird 00:00 Tools
The Breeze - My Baby Cries 00:00 Tools
Limited Capacity 00:00 Tools
Ambition 00:00 Tools
04. BILL CALLAHAN - Diamond Dancer 00:00 Tools
Hangman Blues 00:00 Tools
Bathroom Floor 00:00 Tools
15bathysphere 00:00 Tools
Rain on Lens 2 00:00 Tools
Song 00:00 Tools
Baby’s Breath 00:00 Tools
Apocalypse 00:00 Tools
Came Blue 00:00 Tools
Rain on Lens 1 00:00 Tools
Be Hit 00:00 Tools
Eid Ma Clack Shaw (6 Music Session, 13 Apr 2011) 00:00 Tools
Wild Love 00:00 Tools
Live as If Someone Is Always Watching You 00:00 Tools
01 river guard 00:00 Tools
Small Plane (AB Sessie) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Smog Children 00:00 Tools
The Candle 00:00 Tools
Jim Cain (6 Music Session, 24 Aug 2009) 00:00 Tools
06 06 Honeymoon Child 00:00 Tools
So Long, Marianne (Leonard Cohen Cover) 00:00 Tools
Seagull (Dream River) 00:00 Tools
Driving 00:00 Tools
Dress Sexy At My Furneral 00:00 Tools
Interview 00:00 Tools
All Thoughts Are Prey To Some B 00:00 Tools
Revanchism 00:00 Tools
The Emperor 00:00 Tools
Cold Blooded Old Times - Don't Look Down 00:00 Tools
Bill Callahan - Sycamore 00:00 Tools
Small plane (Dream River) 00:00 Tools
In Dub 00:00 Tools
Bill Callahan: Drover 00:00 Tools
Faures - Asthenospheric Movement 00:00 Tools
05 05 The Wheel 00:00 Tools
08 Let Me See The Colts 00:00 Tools
Goldfish Bowl 00:00 Tools
pure sunshine 00:00 Tools
The Breeze/My Baby Cries (Kath Bloom Cover) 00:00 Tools
bored bayou 00:00 Tools
08 Winter Road 00:00 Tools
02 our anniversary 00:00 Tools
River Guard (Black Cab Session) 00:00 Tools
The Wind And The Dove (6 Music Session, 24 Aug 2009) 00:00 Tools
America! (Nicolas Jaar remix \ cut) 00:00 Tools
Rock Bottom River 00:00 Tools
Eid Ma Clack Shaw‏ 00:00 Tools
Baby's Breathe 00:00 Tools
Spanish Moss 00:00 Tools
For a Rainbow - Bill Callahan 00:00 Tools
04 04 sycamore 00:00 Tools
: Call Me Mister 00:00 Tools
08 08 Night 00:00 Tools
All Thoughts are Pray to Some Beast 00:00 Tools
River Guard (Daytrotter session) 00:00 Tools
The Breeze | My Baby Cries 00:00 Tools
America! (Kasper Bjørke Re-Edit) 00:00 Tools
America ! 00:00 Tools
Whistling Teapot (Rag) 00:00 Tools
Welcome to Daytrotter 00:00 Tools
02 Taken 00:00 Tools
Faith,Void 00:00 Tools
From The Rivers To The Ocean (2007) 00:00 Tools
03 03 Diamond Dancer 00:00 Tools
Jim Cain (live) 00:00 Tools
From Rivers To The Ocean 00:00 Tools
All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Bea 00:00 Tools
Bathysphere [Live] 00:00 Tools
05 sycamore 00:00 Tools
Diamond Dancer [Live] 00:00 Tools
Your Wedding 00:00 Tools
15 bathysphere 00:00 Tools
Strawberry Rash 00:00 Tools
02 Diamond Dancer 00:00 Tools
04 04 04 Sycamore 00:00 Tools
09 - A Man Needs A Woman Or A 00:00 Tools
02 02 02 footprints 00:00 Tools
The Breeze My Baby Cries 06:24 Tools
Smog 00:00 Tools
14bloodflow 00:00 Tools
09 A Man Needs A Woman Or A Man To B 00:00 Tools
10 dress sexy at my funeral 00:00 Tools
All Thoughts Are Prey To... 00:00 Tools
So Long Marianne (Leonard Cohen) 00:00 Tools
ride my arrow (live) 00:00 Tools
Our Anniversary [Live] 00:00 Tools
Spring (Live) 00:00 Tools
Drover (live) 00:00 Tools
Riding for the Feeling (live) 00:00 Tools
One Fine Morning (Live) 00:00 Tools
Cold-Blooded Old Times [Live] 00:00 Tools
In The Pines [Live] 00:00 Tools
Bowery [Live] 00:00 Tools
I Am Star Wars! 00:00 Tools
Shepherd‚s Welcome 00:00 Tools
Free’s 00:00 Tools
The Breeze/My Bany Cries 00:00 Tools
Bill Callahan - Too Many Birds 00:00 Tools
Sycamore - Don't Look Down 00:00 Tools
Real Live Dress 00:00 Tools
A Man Needs A Woman Or A Man To B 00:00 Tools
America! - 6 Music Session 13/04/2011 00:00 Tools
07 All Thoughts Are Prey To Some Bea 00:00 Tools
04 Held 00:00 Tools
06 In The Pines 00:00 Tools
Jim Cain (6 Music Session 24 Aug 2009) 00:00 Tools
07 07 Day 00:00 Tools
03 03 03 Diamond Dancer 00:00 Tools
Universal Applicant (with lyrics) 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Shoes 00:00 Tools
Astronaut 00:00 Tools
Baby's Breath (6 Music Session, 13 Apr 2011) 00:00 Tools
Spring (6 Music Session 3 Feb 2014) 00:00 Tools
A Jar Of Sand 00:00 Tools
One Less Star 00:00 Tools
decline 00:00 Tools
Garb 00:00 Tools
Call Me Mister [Call Me Mister / Original Broadway Cast] 00:00 Tools
06say valley maker 00:00 Tools
09 09 A Man Needs A Woman Or A Man To Be A Man 00:00 Tools
Anniversary 00:00 Tools
07 i feel like the mother of the world 00:00 Tools
09 rock bottom riser 00:00 Tools
John Tyler: Hindsight Falls On Deaf Ears (feat. Bill Callahan) 00:00 Tools
37 Push Ups 00:00 Tools
Rock Bottom Riser [Live] 00:00 Tools
01 Our Anniversary 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
Morning Paper 00:00 Tools
05 - Diamond Dancer 00:00 Tools
03 blood red bird 00:00 Tools
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World Cafe 00:00 Tools
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Winter Road (Highs in the Mid-40's Dub) 00:00 Tools
DIAMOND DANCER (OLE SMOKEY'S DANCING BY MYSELF EDIT) 00:00 Tools
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Say Valley Maker [Live] 00:00 Tools
The Well [Live] 00:00 Tools
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A Man Needs A Woman For A Man To Be A Man 00:00 Tools
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Bill Callahan (born 1966), also known as Smog and (Smog), is an American singer-songwriter born in Silver Spring, Maryland. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he began releasing albums with the label Drag City, to which he remains signed today. Callahan started out as a highly experimental artist, using substandard instruments and recording equipment. His early songs often nearly lacked melodic structure and were clumsily played on poorly tuned guitars (possibly influenced by Jandek, whom Callahan admired), resulting in the dissonant sounds on his self-released cassettes and debut album Sewn to the Sky. Much of his early output was instrumental, a stark contrast to the lyrical focus of his later work. Apparently, he used lo-fi techniques not primarily because of an aesthetic preference but because he didn't have any other possibility to make music. Once he signed a contract with Drag City, he also started to use recording studios and a greater variety of instruments for his records. From 1993 to 2000, Callahan's recordings grew more and more "professional" sounding, with more instruments, and a higher sound quality. In this period he recorded two albums with the influential producer Jim O'Rourke and Tortoise's John McEntire, and collaborated with Neil Hagerty. After 2000's Dongs of Sevotion, Callahan began moving back to a slightly simpler instrumentation and recording style, while retaining the more consistent songwriting style he had developed over the years. This shift is apparent in albums such as Rain on Lens, Supper, and A River Ain't Too Much to Love. Smog's songs are often based on simple, repetitive structures, consisting of a simple chord progression repeated for the duration of the entire song. His singing is strikingly characterized by his baritone voice and a style of delivery without being over-emotional. Melodically and lyrically he tends to eschew the verse-chorus approach favoured by many contemporary songwriters, preferring instead a more free-form approach relying less on melodic and lyrical repetition. Themes in Callahan's lyrics include relationships, moving, horses, teenagers, bodies of water, and more recently, politics. His generally dispassionate delivery of lyrics and dark irony often obfuscate complex emotional and lyrical twists and turns. Critics have generally characterized his music as depressing and intensely introverted, with one critic describing it as "a peep-show view into an insular world of alienation." Despite this there is also a broad swathe of joy throughout Callahan's work and more attentive critics have picked up on Callahan's tendency to black humour, a tendency often confused with a depressed mental state or a genuine obsession with the morbid, a confusion no doubt caused by his deadpan vocals. Cat Power (Chan Marshall) recorded Callahan's song Bathysphere on her 1996 album What Would the Community Think. She covered him again in 2000 on her Covers Record doing the song Red Apples. Smog's Cold Blooded Old Times appears on the High Fidelity soundtrack. The song Vessel in Vain (from Supper) was also used on the soundtrack of the independent British film Dead Man's Shoes in 2004. In October 2007, Cadillac released a commercial which featured Smog's song Held and Bob Dylan driving a 2008 Escalade through the desert. As of 2007 he lives in Austin, Texas where he released Woke on a Whaleheart. It was his first record release as Bill Callahan. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.