First Listen: Bill Callahan, 'Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest'
On his first album in six years, Bill Callahan ruminates on domesticity, devotion and mortality in his conversational baritone.
by Nate Chinen
Jun 06, 2019
2 minutes
"I sing for answers," declares Bill Callahan at one point on his calmly revelatory new album, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest. "I sing for good listeners," he adds. "And tired dancers."
This firm statement of purpose comes at the end of a gamboling song full of disclaimers. The beginning of the song, "Call Me Anything," amounts to a backpedaling shrug:
I never was the things I said IBut it's not as if I liedWhat I was, all I wasWas the effort to describeThe effort to describe
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