Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest

Vinyl LP pressing. As you listen to Shepherd In a Sheepskin Vest, a feeling of totality, of completeness, steals over you, like a thief in broad daylight. Of course it does - you're listening to a new Bill Callahan record! The first one in almost six years! What more do you need to complete you? Or perhaps, after all the time, the obvious needs to be made just a little more explicit? The sense of a life thunderstruck by change infuses Shepherd In a Sheepskin Vest - the songs wander from expressions of newfound joy and great contentment to other snapshots, considerations of the not-joy that we all know. Unsettling dream-images and mythic recollections are patiently received; the undertow of the past is resisted, pulling against it instead into the present, accepting revolutions of time and the unconscious as a natural flow. 1 Shepherd's Welcome 2 Black Dog On the Beach 3 Angela 4 The Ballad of the Hulk 5 Writing 6 Morning Is My Godmother 7 747 8 Watch Me Get Married 9 Young Icarus 10 Released 11 What Comes After Certainty 12 Confederate Jasmine 13 Call Me Anything 14 Son of the Sea 15 Camels 16 Circles 17 When We Let Go 18 Lonesome Valley 19 Tugboats and Tumbleweeds 20 The Beast