{"product_id":"i-drive-a-valence-the-collected-lyrics-of-bill-callahan-9781937112158","title":"I Drive a Valence: The Collected Lyrics of Bill Callahan","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bill Callahan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Drag City\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Drag City\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Lyrics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil 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 \u003cbr\u003eon another shelf where they sit just as entirely as they do on LP shelves around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drag City","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45129339535511,"sku":"9781937112158","price":1419.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781937112158.webp?v=1767651741","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/i-drive-a-valence-the-collected-lyrics-of-bill-callahan-9781937112158","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}