Posts tagged Misc

Callahan on the Stanley Brothers and tone

I’ve liked the Stanley Brothers approach to music. It’s not repressed or restrained to me. It is kind of like if you could blend all emotions into one. They balance each other out, in a way, to make something that is emotional but does not lean on any one emotion above another to get the point across.

Another Bill Mix

I also got a mix CD from Bill from the Kickstarter thing, but mine is different. It’s called The Gold. I wasn’t able to figure out what all of the songs were, but here’s what I did find:

1. Loose Rap - Aaliyah

2. I Can’t Stand It - Alton Ellis

3. couldn’t find

4. I Walk On Guilded Splinters - Dr. John

5. When I Stop Dreaming - the original is by the Louvin Brothers, I believe, but I don’t know who did this version

6. My Life - Phil Ochs

7. Saga of the Ageing Orphan (Thin Lizzy cover) - Philip Lynott

8. Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne

9. Gemini - The Alan Parsons Project

10. There Ain’t Shit on TV Tonight - Minutemen

11. Trains Make Me Lonesome - George Strait

12. Hobo’s Meditation - Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt

I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am “at” personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy. I tend to hope people will meet me halfway. The “halfway” point is, “here’s some music, forget about the particulars of the feller before you, let’s listen to it and see what happens.
Bill Callahan
he may be 26 years my senior, but I am going to fucking marry that man, goddamit. Maybe if I post it to tumblr, it will come true. — Asked by Anonymous

A Note from the Artist

by Bill Callahan  (from the Lincoln Center program)

To start off with I should mention that I invented the sun. And also that it’s a pleasure to be here tonight.

They say life is short, but I’m not so sure. I’ve been putting off writing these notes for what feels like a century. And I know most of you quickly checked the length of this piece before you started reading it and hoped it was short—as if you couldn’t spare the 90 sec- onds out of the $86,000 in a day. I put the dollar sign in there to keep you interested. I do not know what tonight will hold. Because from where I’m sitting, tonight is a month away and a little brandy would help clear my head. Seriously.

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Only Bill can make a floral pattern look manly. Hot damn. — Asked by Anonymous