Longtime Drag City artist Bill Callahan has announced the release of his seventh album, Gold Record, under his own name. Callahan, who previously recorded under the name Smog, released his last project Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest in 2019. The album will be released via Drag City on 4th September, and features the singles 35, Pigeons and Another Song. On the song 35, author Patty Yumi Cottrell has written: “Bill Callahan is a friend to everyone.
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A conjurer of mortal joy, he shows us how a song can be a mirror, a map of encounter, a shrine to solitude. Bill’s voice, clarion and wise, reminds me to pay attention and to be more careful with others because most of us are gentle, small, and desiring things for ourselves. We might not notice this ever. It’s OK to get lost, to hang out in the murk, Bill reassures us. We’re lucky to have a guide. The moon is over my shoulder like a lantern on the path back, clearing.”