After a six-year gap between studio albums, Callahan returned with Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, a sprawling, meditative collection that found him ruminating on marriage, fatherhood, and the quietude of domestic life.
- The album was released on June 14, 2019, by Drag City Records.
- Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest arrived seven years after Callahan's marriage and the birth of his son, a period of profound personal change that deeply informs the record's lyrical content.
- The album's title is a reference to a lyric from "The Ballad of the Carpenter," a song from Callahan's 1990 compilation, The Cowboy.
Bill Callahan is a singer-songwriter from Baltimore, Maryland, known for his deeply resonant baritone and his prolific, decades-spanning career in indie rock. From his early lo-fi recordings as Smog to his more recent work under his own name, Callahan has consistently explored themes of masculinity, nature, and the mundane with a singular, laconic intensity.
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