8.2
Avg Score
7
Opinions
#1,630
All Time
12
Tracks
“The Austin singer-songwriter's stories are as rich and captivating as ever”
“A peerless storyteller gazes deep into domestic life and offers a long, sun-warmed double album that is a highlight of his career.”
“‘The panic room is now a nursery,” sings veteran leftfield tunesmith Bill Callahan on Son of the Sea. It’s just one instance of pregnant understatement on a 20-track album that ends this extraordinary American songwriter’s six years away from the release schedules. Life happened: marriage, a baby son, the death of his mother and now, a purple patch of tunes that combine the allusive rigour of his ”
“In the six years since his last album, the supreme ‘Dream River’, the often-inscrutable, almost-always-brilliant Bill Callahan has gone through a lot. In 2014 he got married, then he and his wife had their first child, and then he cared for his mother, who died of cancer two-and-a-half years after her diagnosis. One of America’s modern greats when it comes to songwriting, it’s fair to say he’s had”
“In the six years since Bill Callahan released his last album – his longest time away in a 30-year recording career – he has fallen in love, got married, had a son, and watched his mother die of cancer. On the one hand, it’s perhaps unsurprising that these major events form the backbone of much of his 16th/17th/18th record (depending on how you count); on the other, however, for a musician as notab”
“Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest is a wonderfully charming singer-songwriter project held back by a somewhat bloated tracklist.”
