Album
Woke On A Whaleheart
2007 · Rock
8 collectors on Gatefold own this
Woke On A Whaleheart is a Country album by Bill Callahan, originally released in 2007. On Gatefold: 7 pressings tracked, owned by 8 collectors.
About
Bill Callahan’s songs are like movies where the camera angle is slightly askew and the narrative gets lost to the quirks of the characters. Though dropping the Smog alias he’s recorded under since 1990, Callahan hasn’t changed his approach for this 13th album, but continues with the same lyrically intense and musically unvarnished indie-folk rock that make his lyrics sound both dire and comforting. “From the Rivers to the Ocean” includes violins and keyboards that in another’s hands would sound lush and grand, but here sandwiched between the raw slab of drums and Callahan’s unpretty voice it sounds like it belongs in a cardboard box in the attic. It’s this unsentimental bluntness that’s made Callahan an eyebrow-raiser in the past. Here, he tries a few dance moves. “Footprints” and “Diamond Dancer” have the ingredients to groove, but the rhythms deliberately halt to create an otherworldly alienation. Country music is also skewered (“The Wheel,” “A Man Needs a Woman Or a Man To Be A Man”) with clopping beats and Callahan’s detached innocent bystander vocal delivery again creating a palpable detachment.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1From The Rivers To The Ocean
- A2Footprints
- A3Diamond Dancer
- A4Sycamore
Side B
- B1The Wheel
- B2Honeymoon Child
- B3Day
- B4Night
- B5A Man Needs A Woman Or A Man To Be A Man
Sound DNA
- Country
- Americana & Roots
- sparse
- wistful
- pastoral
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Bill CallahanGUITAR, VOCALS GUITAR, VOCALS, WRITTEN-BY GUITAR, VOICE
- Deani Pugh-FlemmingsBACKING VOCALS
- Elizabeth WarrenVIOLIN
- Howard DraperKEYBOARDS PIANO, ELECTRIC ORGAN , ELECTRIC ORGAN , LAP STEEL GUITAR , ELECTRIC ORGAN
- Pete DentonGUITAR , PERCUSSION, SYNTHESIZER GUITAR, PERCUSSION, SYNTHESIZER
- Steve BernalBASS RECORDER
- Thor HarrisDRUMS, PERCUSSION, GLOCKENSPIEL
8 collectors on Gatefold own this · 7 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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