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SUMMARY:Bill Callahan
LOCATION:The Leeds Irish Centre
DESCRIPTION:My Days of 58 is the eighth Bill Callahan album\, his first sin
 ce 2022. The twelve tunes here open uncanny depths of expression as Bill c
 ontinues to blaze one of the most original songwriting-and-performance tra
 ils out there. With My Days of 58\, he applies the living\, breathing ener
 gies of his live shows to the studio process\, sharpening his slice-of-lif
 e portraiture to cut deeper than ever before.\n\nThe core musicians featur
 ed on My Days of 58 is the group that toured for 2022’s REALITY: guitari
 st Matt Kinsey\, saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi and drummer Jim White\, whose
  synergy was evident in 2024’s live Resuscitate!. This showed Bill\, as 
 he puts it\, “that they could handle anything I threw at them\,” addin
 g:\n\n“Improv/unpredictability/the unknown is the thing that keeps me mo
 tivated to keep making music. It’s all about listening to yourself and o
 thers. A lot of the best parts of a recording are the mistakes — making 
 them into strengths\, using them as springboards into something human.”
 \n\nWith this in mind\, Bill prepared the songs with each player separatel
 y. Taking a note from songwriter\, fan and friend Jerry DeCicca\, he recor
 ded the basic tracks for all but one song in a duo with Jim White. Meanwhi
 le\, he rehearsed with Matt\, guitar to guitar\, while asking Dustin to ma
 ke horn charts for a few songs. Bill:\n\n“I usually just sing a melody t
 o a horn player or let them try a few takes and go from there. This time I
  thought\, why not get some of the record charted out. There’s always ro
 om for spontaneity on top of that. And we did indeed throw some off the cu
 ff stuff on top of the charted horns in a couple cases where they weren’
 t fully doing what I wanted.\n\nWith this record I kept thinking of it as 
 a ‘living room record.’ I’m not talking about fidelity at all here. 
 Living room attitude. Living room vibe. Not too loud\, not otherworldly. I
  asked for the horns to be relaxed like someone on the couch playing\, not
  a blast from heaven or hell.”\n\nFor more spontaneity and human color\,
  Bill called up several other players: Richard Bowden on fiddle\, whom he
 ’d seen playing with Terry Allen and loved\; pianist Pat Thrasher\; bass
 ist Chris Vreeland\; and trombonist Mike St. Clair. About pedal steel play
 er Bill McCullough\, who he knew from Knife in the Water\, Bill says this:
 \n\n“He has a real abstract approach to an abstract instrument — he’
 s a photographer (shot the front and back cover) and sees the steel in the
  same way as apertures and f-stops — foreground and mid ground and backg
 round — blurry and sharp. That’s how I’ve always seen the steel so i
 t’s exciting to share that.\n\nBut hobo stew is always the idea — thro
 wing together who I have at hand instead of following a recipe. I’m alwa
 ys learning. I know very little after all these years. I go by gut mostly
 \, but sometimes forget all the possible considerations to consider.\n\nTh
 e goal of every record at the recording part of the process is to get thro
 wn out of Eden. Every session starts in Eden but you have to get out of th
 ere at some point.”\n\nBoletos: https://dice.fm/event/bb8p5g-bill-callah
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