View basket “Beachwood Sparks” has been added to your basket. Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest Bill Callahan SKU: DC747 Barcode: 0781484074717 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Drag City Released Date: 14th June 2019 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info As you listen to Shepherd In a Sheepskin Vest, a feeling of totality, of completeness, steals over you, like a thief in broad daylight. Of course it does – you’re listening to a new Bill Callahan record! The first one in almost six years! What more do you need to complete you? Or perhaps, after all the time, the obvious needs to be made just a little more explicit? First, it’s a different kind of record. Bill’s now writing from somewhere beyond his Eagle-Apocalypse-River headspace, and Shepherd In a Sheepskin Vest is very much its own beast. The songs are, by and large, shorter, and there are more of them. It took almost all of the previous three albums to add up to that many. Plus, twenty’s a lot of songs! But again, it goes a lot deeper than that. Moving gradually from reflections upon the old days in Ballad of The Hulk and Young Icarus to the immediacy of the present moment in Watching Me Get Married and Son of the Sea, Bill traces the different life lines, casually unwinding knotty contradictions and ambiguities with an arresting stillness. The sense of a life thunderstruck by change infuses Shepherd In a Sheepskin Vest – the songs wander from expressions of newfound joy and great contentment to other snapshots, considerations of the not-joy that we all know. Unsettling dream-images and mythic recollections are patiently received; the undertow of the past is resisted, pulling against it instead into the present, accepting revolutions of time and the unconscious as a natural flow. Shepherd In a Sheepskin Vest glows incandescent – an entirely acoustic arrangement, sounds and stories shifting seamlessly, almost like one big song made of a bunch of new stories – the kind that only Bill Callahan thinks to sing. Artist Bill Callahan Genre Americana / Country Label Drag City Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings 01 Shepherd’s Welcome 02 Black Dog on the Beach 03 Angela 04 The Ballad of the Hulk 05 Writing 06 Morning Is My Godmother 07 747 08 Watch Me Get Married 09 Young Icarus 10 Released 11 What Comes After Certainty 12 Confederate Jasmine 13 Call Me Anything 14 Son of the Sea 15 Camels 16 Circles 17 When We Let Go 18 Lonesome Valley 19 Tugboats and Tumbleweeds 20 The Beast Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Bill Callahan and more from Americana / Country View Product Quick View Bill Callahan YTI⅃AƎЯ Rock And Pop | Drag City | 2LP Released 24th February 2023 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill Callahan YTI⅃AƎЯ £32.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City SKU: DC859 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 24th February 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bill Callahan Gold Record Rock And Pop | Drag City | 1LP Released 25th September 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill Callahan Gold Record £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City SKU: DC760 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th September 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bill Callahan Dream River Americana / Country | Drag City | 1LP Released 11th September 2013 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill Callahan Dream River £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Drag City SKU: DC553 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th September 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bill Callahan Have Fun With God Reggae / Dub / Ska | Drag City | 1LP Released 5th February 2014 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill Callahan Have Fun With God £15.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Drag City SKU: DC571 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th February 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dreaming Spires, The Brothers In Brooklyn Americana / Country | Clubhouse Records | 180g, 1LP Released 10th August 2012 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dreaming Spires, The Brothers In Brooklyn £18.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Clubhouse Records SKU: CRUK0010LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th August 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Carolina Chocolate Drops Leaving Eden Americana / Country | Nonesuch | 1LP, Includes CD Released 28th March 2012 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Carolina Chocolate Drops Leaving Eden £28.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Nonesuch SKU: 7559796253 Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 28th March 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mountain Goats, The Getting Into Knives Americana / Country | Merge Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 23rd October 2020 £23.00 - 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