Categories
Music

Bill Callahan performs in Glasgow

Bill Callahan seems to have existed as a quiet enigma on the peripheries of the mainstream for several decades. Prolific in his years as lo-fi noise-rocker Smog, since 2007 he’s just been going by ‘Bill.’ More recently, the man himself took to the stage at Queen Margaret University’s student union in Glasgow.  Callahan’s music is […]

Categories
Music

Bill Callahan’s ‘If You Could Touch Her At All’ lacks resonance

Men with guitars. The standard can be so high. Messiahs of sex, of cool, their levels of influence are biblical. But then, Cohen and Dylan didn’t shout when other men, in suits too big for them, started up with harmonicas and shaky speak-singing. The soft spot for men with jangling guitars to sing about love […]