REALITY – Bill Callahan [CD]

‘And we’re coming out of dreams/And we’re coming back to dreams’ is the first thing you hear Bill say as you remake your acquaintance on ‘REALITY’. Right out the gate, he’s standing in two places at once: meeting up with old friends behind the scenes and encountering them on the record, finding himself coming round the bend and then again as someone else on down the line. Like the character actor he played on ‘Gold Record’, writing stories about other people, telling jokes about everyone, and in singing them, becoming the songs.

Disc 1
1. First Bird – Bill Callahan
2. Everyway – Bill Callahan
3. Bowevil – Bill Callahan
4. Partition – Bill Callahan
5. Lily – Bill Callahan
6. Naked Souls – Bill Callahan
7. Coyotes – Bill Callahan
8. Drainface – Bill Callahan
9. Natural Information – Bill Callahan
10. The Horse – Bill Callahan
11. Planets – Bill Callahan
12. Last One at the Party – Bill Callahan