Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
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Artist: Bill CallahanEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-04-14
Music Label: Drag City
Product features:
- Folk/Neofolk
- Jim Cain
- Eid Ma Clack Shaw
- The Wind and the Dove
- Rococo Zephyr
- Too Many Birds
- My Friend
- All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast
- Invocation of Ratiocination
- Faith/Void
Music reviews of Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Music Review: AFTER THE STORM
Rating: 5 Stars
We stepped into the record shop (we stll do that) and it was there: the sound filled every corner on that calm afternoon before Easter, the opalescent light of the cloudy day merging perfectly with the music. The place was nearly empty, just ready for the record to unfurl its tapestry of cellos, French horns and soft rhythms topped by a voice blending JOHNNY CASH with BRYAN FERRY and NICK DRAKE. That is, an imposing oak with a slender birch as its core.
We asked a shop assistant if that was BILL CALLAHAN's cd playing and were pleased when he said yes; we had guessed the artist without having heard any of his albums, not even those he recorded as SMOG.
We wandered around the shop. Bought cds by Rickie Lee Jones and Marc & The Mambas. Then left. Struck by sudden hesitation, we had not picked up Mr Callahan.
A mistake, indeed. A few hours later that sound was still on our mind, generating a tenuous but steady throb we ended up calling...longing? yearning? love?
It is now two weeks after the Revelation before, and SOMETIMES I WISH WE WERE AN EAGLE, BILL CALLAHAN's second solo album, has been spinning in our player for a few days.
We now know what we experienced in that shop on that calm, cloudy day: this is the sound you hear just after the Storm has ended. Any Storm in your life: when everything is clear but sorrow is still there, ready to be measured and analysed. Impeccably accomplished, yet still dangerous in a tantalizing way.
This record possesses a ruthless poestic voice. It is lucid despair and unmeasurable relief. It is regret and strength. Torment and detachment. It is darkness in light, and light in darkness.
It is up there with FRED NEIL by FRED NEIL and PINK MOON by NICK DRAKE.
Description of Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
2009 release. At the risk of being redundant, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle is about as beautiful an album as you can expect to hear sung circa 2009. Unfolding like a first view of paradise, then a slightly less ecstatic second view of paradise and then finally a glance back over your shoulder at that stupid paradise bulls***, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle surveys a landscape that grows organically, like the time two people spend together; or the time one person spends alone (with another). One way or another, it's awfully pretty.Alternative Rock CDs
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