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This a detailed discography of American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan . All of his work was released under the alias Smog, except where noted.
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This a detailed discography of American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan . All of his work was released under the alias Smog, except where noted.
All released under the name "Smog" except those that mention otherwise.
| Title | Release date | Label | Format | Additional info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sewn to the Sky | 1990 | Disaster | LP | Re-released by Drag City on CD in 1995, on LP in 1996 and on CD in 2005 |
| Forgotten Foundation | May 25, 1992 | Drag City | CD | Re-released on LP in 1996, and on CD in 2005 |
| Julius Caesar | July 5, 1993 | LP/CS/CD | Re-released on CD by Domino Records in 2001 | |
| Wild Love | March 27, 1995 | LP/CD | Re-released on CD by Domino Records in 2001 | |
| The Doctor Came at Dawn | September 10, 1996 | Drag City / Domino | LP/CD | |
| Red Apple Falls | May 20, 1997 | LP/CD | ||
| Knock Knock | January 12, 1999 | LP/CD | ||
| Dongs of Sevotion | April 4, 2000 | 2×LP/CD | ||
| Rain on Lens | September 18, 2001 | LP/CD | ||
| Supper | March 18, 2003 | LP/CD | ||
| A River Ain't Too Much to Love | May 31, 2005 | LP/CD | Latest album released under the name Smog | |
| Woke on a Whaleheart | April 17, 2007 | Drag City | LP/CD | First album released as Bill Callahan |
| Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle | April 14, 2009 | LP/CD | As Bill Callahan | |
| Apocalypse | April 11, 2011 | LP/CD | As Bill Callahan UK chart peak: #116 [1] | |
| Dream River | September 17, 2013 | LP/CD | As Bill Callahan UK chart peak: #44 | |
| Have Fun with God | January 21, 2014 | LP/CD | As Bill Callahan | |
| Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest | June 14, 2019 | LP/CD | As Bill Callahan | |
| Gold Record | September 4, 2020 [2] | LP/CD | As Bill Callahan | |
| Ytilaer | October 14, 2022 | LP/CD | As Bill Callahan |
| Title | Release date | Label | Format | Additional info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floating | August 23, 1991 | Drag City | 7-inch | |
| Burning Kingdom | September 19, 1994 | 12-inch/CS/CD | Rerelased on CD by Domino Records in 2001. | |
| Kicking a Couple Around | April 29, 1996 | Drag City / Domino Records | 12-inch/CD | |
| The Manta Rays of Time | 2000 | Spunk Records | CD | |
| Strayed | July 17, 2000 | Drag City / Domino Records | CD | Features a reissue of the rare self-released cassette Cow . |
| 'Neath the Puke Tree | December 11, 2000 | 12-inch/CD |
| Title | Year | Format | Label | Additional info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "My Shell" / "Astronaut" | 1991 | 7-inch (split with Suckdog) | #1 Hits! | An electric version of "My Shell" was later featured on the Burning Kingdom EP. |
| "A Hit" | 1994 | 7-inch | Drag City | |
| "Came Blue" / "Spanish Moss" | 1996 | 7-inch | Hausmusik | |
| "Ex-Con" | 1997 | 7-inch/CD | Domino Records | From Red Apple Falls . |
| "Held" | 1998 | 7-inch/CD | Drag City / Domino Records | From Knock Knock . |
| "Look Now" | 1999 | 7-inch/CD | Drag City | |
| "Cold Blooded Old Times" | 7-inch/CD | Domino Records | From Knock Knock . | |
| "Strayed" | 2000 | 7-inch | Drag City / Domino Records | From Dongs of Sevotion . |
| "Rock Bottom Riser" | 2006 | CD | From A River Ain't Too Much to Love . | |
| "Diamond Dancer" | 2007 | CD | Drag City | From Woke on a Whaleheart . |
| "Wind and the Dove" (live) | 2010 | 7-inch | ||
| "Blackness of the Night" | 2020 | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring AZITA, later compiled on Blind Date Party | |
| "OD'd in Denver" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring Matt Sweeney, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "I've Made Up My Mind" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring Alasdair Roberts, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "Red Tailed Hawk" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring Matt Kinsey, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "Wish You Were Gay" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring Sean O'Hagan, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "Deacon Blues" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring Bill MacKay, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "Our Anniversary" | digital | Smog cover with Will Oldham, featuring Dead Rider, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "I Love You" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring David Pajo, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "Sea Song" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring Mick Turner, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "I've Been the One" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring Meg Baird, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "Letter Sung to Friends"/"Little Bird" | digital | Covers with Will Oldham, featuring Nathan Salsburg | ||
| "Rooftop Garden" | 2021 | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring George Xylouris, later compiled on Blind Date Party | |
| "Miracles" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring Ty Segall, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "Lost in Love" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring Emmett Kelly, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "Night Rider's Lament" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring Cory Hanson, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "Arise Therefore" | digital | Will Oldham cover with Oldham, featuring Six Organs of Admittance, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "The Night of Santiago" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring David Grubbs, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "The Wild Kindness" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring Cooper Crain, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "I Want to Go to the Beach" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring Cassie Berman, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "She Is My Everything" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring Richard Bishop, later compiled on Blind Date Party | ||
| "Kidnapped by Neptune" | digital | Cover with Will Oldham, featuring Hamerkop |
| Year | Song(s) | Album | Album artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | "Your Face" | Hey Drag City (Drag City Compilation (DC20)) | Various artists (as Smog) |
| 1999 | "Extra Blues" (might be produced/feature string arrangements by Walker(?)) | Pola X (Original Soundtrack) | Soundtrack composed by Scott Walker also featuring contributions from Smog & Sonic Youth among others |
| 2009 | "The Breeze/My Baby Cries" | Loving Takes This Course: A Tribute to the Songs of Kath Bloom | Various artists (covering Kath Bloom) |
| "Santa Maria" originally by Versus | Score! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers! | Various artists | |
| "For a Rainbow" | Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill | Various artists (covering Judee Sill) | |
| 2010 | "Lapse" | Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox | Various artists (covering Chris Knox) |
| Year | Album artist | Album | Song(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Joanna Newsom | Ys | "Only Skin" |
| Year | Band | Title | Label | Additional info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | The Sundowners | Goat Songs 7-inch EP | Sea Note Records | Collaboration with Will Oldham. Reissued on May 21, 1994. |
| c.1993 | "The Girl with the Thing in Her Hair" / "The Summer Song" 7-inch | Collaboration with Will Oldham. | ||
| 2001 | Drag City Supersessions | Tramps, Traitors and Little Devils | Drag City | Collaboration with Edith Frost and Neil Michael Hagerty |
Bill Callahan is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who has also recorded and performed under the band name Smog. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four-track tape recorders. Later he began releasing albums with the label Drag City, to which he remains signed today. His work, in addition to lo-fi music, has encompassed apocalyptic folk and gothic country.
Domino Recording Company or simply Domino is a British independent record label based in London. There is also a wing of the label based in Brooklyn, New York that handles releases in the United States, as well as a German division called Domino Deutschland and a French division called Domino France. In addition, Stephen Pastel presides over the subsidiary label Geographic Music, which releases more 'unusual' music from Britain and outside of the Western world. In 2011, the company announced that it was beginning a book publishing division, The Domino Press.
Joseph Will Oldham is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded in collaboration with dozens of other musicians under variations of Palace. After briefly publishing music under his own name, in 1998 he adopted Bonnie "Prince" Billy as the name for most of his work.
I See a Darkness is the sixth album by American musician Will Oldham, released on Palace Records on January 19, 1999 as the first album under the name Bonnie "Prince" Billy. The album features appearances from Bob Arellano, Colin Gagon, Paul Oldham, David Pajo, and Peter Townsend.
Knock Knock is the seventh studio album by Bill Callahan, released under his Smog alias. It was originally released through Drag City in January 1999. In Europe, it was released through Domino Recording Company.
Red Apple Falls is the sixth album by Smog, released in May 1997 on Drag City and re-released in Europe in 2001 by Domino.
The Doctor Came at Dawn is the fifth album by Bill Callahan, released in 1996 on Drag City. It was re-released in Europe in 2001 by Domino. Callahan's occasional creative partner, Cynthia Dall, appears on the album.
A River Ain't Too Much to Love is the eleventh studio album by Smog. It was released on May 30, 2005 in Europe by Domino Recording Company and in North America by Drag City. It is Bill Callahan's final studio album released under the Smog moniker.
"Deacon Blues" is a song written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen in 1976 and recorded by their group Steely Dan on their 1977 album Aja. It peaked at number 19 on the Billboard charts and number 17 on the U.S. Cash Box Top 100 in June 1978. It also reached #40 on the Easy Listening chart. In Canada, it peaked at #14, a position it occupied for two weeks, and #20 Adult Contemporary. In 2021, it was listed at No. 214 on Rolling Stone's "Top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
This is a list of recordings by Will Oldham.
Sewn to the Sky is an album by Smog, released in 1990 by Disaster Records. Most sources consider it to be Smog's first album, made after the release of several cassette-only recordings. It was re-released by Drag City in 1995. The experimental album combined home recording, substandard instruments and repetitive and noisy songwriting structures, and was an early example of the lo-fi genre.
Accumulation: None is a compilation of rarities by the American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, released under his then alias, Smog. It was put out on November 4, 2002, in Europe by Domino Records and a day later in North America by Drag City. The compilation includes the then-new song "White Ribbon."
'Neath the Puke Tree is an EP by Bill Callahan. It was released on Drag City in 2000.
Woke on a Whaleheart is the first record released by Bill Callahan under his own name instead of his nom de plume Smog. It was released by Drag City on April 24, 2007, and released a week earlier in Callahan's home state of Texas. A single, "Diamond Dancer," preceded the release of the album on March 20, 2007.
Steve Adey is an English musician and singer-songwriter. His music is characterised by slow tempos, minimalist arrangements, underpinned by piano and a rich baritone vocal. As of 2018 Adey has released three studio albums and various EPs and singles.
Drag City is an American independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois. Established in the city in 1990 by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn, its first release was a Royal Trux single. It specializes in indie rock, noise rock, psychedelic folk, alternative country, and experimental music. The label has featured numerous critically acclaimed artists, including Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Bill Callahan, Joanna Newsom, and Silver Jews.
The Wonder Show of the World is a collaborative studio album by Bonnie "Prince" Billy & The Cairo Gang. It was released on Drag City in 2010.
Apocalypse is a studio album by Bill Callahan, released on April 5, 2011. It is the third studio album released under his own name, and fourteenth overall when including LPs released as Smog.
"It's All Over" is a song by the Everly Brothers, released as a single in December 1965 from their album In Our Image.
Blind Date Party is a collaborative studio album by Bill Callahan and Bonnie "Prince" Billy, released on December 10, 2021, via Drag City. The project consists of covers of other artists' songs, many of which are from the duo's Drag City labelmates.