"True love is not magic, it’s certainty
And what comes after certainty
A world of mystery."
In an interview with The New Yorker, singer/songwriter Bill Callahan declares, “Those lines probably do a good job of summing up the record. As humans, we’re hardwired to desire and to want things that we don’t have. Once we get those things, we’re still hardwired to be full of desire.”
His latest album is Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, a double LP and his first new album since 2013's Dream River (not counting 2014's dub-revamp of Dream River titled Have Fun with God). The release sees Callahan meditating on married life, being a first-time father, and the philosophical questions that domestic life conjures.
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