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SUMMARY:BILL CALLAHAN w/Noveller
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 th
 em into strengths\, using them as springboards into something human.”\n\
 nWith this in mind\, Bill prepared the songs with each player separately. 
 Taking a note from songwriter\, fan and friend Jerry DeCicca\, he recorded
  the basic tracks for all but one song in a duo with Jim White. Meanwhile\
 , he rehearsed with Matt\, guitar to guitar\, while asking Dustin to make 
 horn charts for a few songs. Bill:\n\n“I usually just sing a melody to a
  horn player or let them try a few takes and go from there. This time I th
 ought\, why not get some of the record charted out. There’s always room 
 for spontaneity on top of that. And we did indeed throw some off the cuff 
 stuff on top of the charted horns in a couple cases where they weren’t f
 ully 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. Li
 ving room attitude. Living room vibe. Not too loud\, not otherworldly. I a
 sked 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\, B
 ill called up several other players: Richard Bowden on fiddle\, whom he’
 d seen playing with Terry Allen and loved\; pianist Pat Thrasher\; bassist
  Chris Vreeland\; and trombonist Mike St. Clair. About pedal steel player 
 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 p
 hotographer (shot the front and back cover) and sees the steel in the same
  way as apertures and f-stops—foreground and mid ground and background
 —blurry and sharp. That’s how I’ve always seen the steel so it’s e
 xciting to share that.\n\nBut hobo stew is always the idea—throwing toge
 ther who I have at hand instead of following a recipe. I’m always learni
 ng. I know very little after all these years. I go by gut mostly\, but som
 etimes forget all the possible considerations to consider.\n\nThe goal of 
 every record at the recording part of the process is to get thrown out of 
 Eden. Every session starts in Eden but you have to get out of there at som
 e point.”\n\nNOVELLER\n\nCreating what Iggy Pop described to Jim Jarmusc
 h as “symphonies for people that don’t have a lot of time\,” multi-i
 nstrumentalist Sarah Lipstate brings her innovative music to life under th
 e name Noveller. Forming unexpected sonic routes\, her songs are vivid and
  cinematic. Lipstate is the composer for the HBO Docuseries “Breath Of F
 ire” as well as the Anthony Bourdain documentary “Roadrunner” and re
 cently toured the world with Iggy as a performer and collaborator.
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