Bill Callahan

Bill Callahan has released 15 albums since the early 1990s – two-thirds under his pseudonym Smog – collaborating with the likes of Jim O’Rourke, Tortoise’s John McEntire, Cat Power, Joanna Newsom and other indie you-know-who’s. His latest, Dream River, is an exquisite and unexpected blend: lush Latin American rhythms, flutes and percussion meeting dried-out Americana, with enigmatic lyrics full of natural, animal and biblical imagery delivered in Callahan’s stoic baritone.

Originally published in issue #124, February 2014.