BILL CALLAHAN Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest (Drag City/Caroline) A couple of years ago Bill Callahan told me that “learning to actually...

Bill Callahan Vivid Live, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, June 2 He smiled. He joked. He ate Tim Tams (or at least confessed to having...

SPACE IS BILL CALLAHAN'S PLAYTHING, his signature and his weapon, sometimes an inadvertent one in his albums of nu-folk, or maybe alt.country – that slow, quiet but loaded-with-intensity mix of traditional musics and very modern subject matter. Although he is a brilliant, spare lyricist, drawing in part from both Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed in intimacy and occasionally outre tales – “heartbreaking lines and also the more deliberate elements of dark humour,” as uber fan Alexis