
Bill Callahan announces first album in six years
02 May 2019, 15:49
| Written by
Cerys Kenneally
Bill Callahan has announced his first new album in six years, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest.
Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest is Callahan's first record of new material since 2013's Dream River. In 2014 Callahan released Have Fun With God, a dub version of his Dream River release.
The new record will feature 20 tracks, over double the amount of his previous two records.
Tracklist:
- Shepherd's Welcome
- Black Dog on the Beach
- Angela
- The Ballad of The Hulk
- Writing
- Morning is My Godmother
- 747
- Watch Me Get Married
- Young Icarus
- Released
- What Comes After Certainty
- Confederate Jasmine
- Call Me Anything
- Son of the Sea
- Camels
- Circles
- When We Let Go
- Lonesome Valley
- Tugboats and Tumbleweeds
- The Beast
Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest will arrive 14 June via Drag City. Bill Callahan will play London's Eventim Apollo on 3 October. Find out more.
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