Invoice Callahan reveals new album Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest: Stream

Invoice Callahan returns along with his new album, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest. Stream it in full beneath by way of Apple Music or Spotify.

Due out by Drag Metropolis, Shepherd serves because the long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s acclaimed Dream River. Based on a press assertion, a lot had transpired because the launch of that final LP. Not solely did Callahan get married, but additionally had a baby — each big life modifications that affected his songwriting:

“However afterwards, it was out of the blue tougher for him to search out the place the place the songs got here, to make him and these new experiences over once more into one thing to sing,” the press launch explains. “His songs have all the time been elusive, touchdown calmly between character examine and autobiography, because the singer-songwriter usually does. This felt completely different, although. After 20 years of placing music first, he wasn’t ready to go away from it fully. Or maybe, after on a regular basis, the plain must be made just a bit extra express?”

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The assertion goes on to explain the 20-track album as having “shorter” songs than traditional, a tradeoff for the sheer variety of songs themselves. It additionally says Callahan wrote them “from someplace past his Eagle-Apocalypse-Riverheadspace” and, because of this, the document is “very a lot its personal beast.”

Callahan will assist Shepherd with a US tour that runs all through summer time and fall. Seize your tickets right here.

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