Bill Callahan: Dream River [Drag City]
River ain’t too much to love, I wish we were an eagle, and Apocalypse were three masterpieces. Under the name of Smog, Bill Callahan had released several very good works, the best were Red apple falls, and Knock knock. So, in a year, without new albums of The Mountain Goats, Robert Wyatt, Joanna Newsom, Brian Eno, Lambchop and David Sylvian, Bill Callahan might release the „killer album“. In the field of raw and intimate songs.
“My language came from watching Humphrey Bogart movies as a kid and wondering, Who is this Raymond Chandler guy? A lot of it just has to do with the metre, the way the sentences are put together. I outgrew Chandler once I discovered (US-hard boiled authors) Cain, Hammett and Woolrich. Some of the Hammett short stories are almost like Beckett, and Woolrich was kind of like Poe. Those writers speak to me in a way Shakespeare doesn´t.” (Mojo)