First Listen: Bill Callahan, 'Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest'
On his first album in six years, Bill Callahan ruminates on domesticity, devotion and mortality in his conversational baritone.
"I sing for answers," declares Bill Callahan at one point on his calmly revelatory new album, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest. "I sing for good listeners," he adds. "And tired dancers."
This firm statement of purpose comes at the end of a gamboling song full of disclaimers. The beginning of the song, "Call Me Anything," amounts to a backpedaling shrug:
I never was the things I said IBut it's not as if I liedWhat I was, all I wasWas the effort to describeThe effort to describe
