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I Drive a Valence: The Collected Lyrics of Bill Callahan

by Bill Callahan
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781937112158
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Drag City
  • Publisher Imprint: Drag City
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 196
  • Original Price: USD 19.98
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 259 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Lyrics and Genres & Styles / Rock

Until we have a feature film in which Bill Callahan's words are spoken by the true and deep characters who exist within the songs, the best format will be this lyric book -- wait, no, the best format will always be the albums featuring the songs, since they are sung by Bill Callahan, the author and singer, in his own inimitable and completely individual fashion. I Drive a Valence, however, which spans two decades of Smog/ Bill Callahan songs, is a fairly unforgettable look-see; in fact, it's a definitive-yet-concise trip through the mirror, collecting the lyrics to 70 songs and pairing them with 116 dreamy inkwash images by the man himself. The nuances and ambiguities within plain-spoke expression are at the exquisite center of Callahan's gift, and the plain fact of words on paper nails them down in a concrete fashion that signals eternity somehow more concretely than sounds in the air can conjure. I Drive a Valence does this for the listener -- makes him/her a reader, while putting Bill Callahan's songs
on another shelf where they sit just as entirely as they do on LP shelves around the world.

Bill Callahan is a singer-songwriter whose albums have been heard by tens of thousands of people around the world over the past three decades. His songs have been covered by a diverse variety of artists such as Cat Power, The Flaming Lips, and Gil-Scott Heron. He is the author of Letters to Emma Bowlcut. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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