Dream River

by Bill Callahan

Dream River cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 September 2013
  • Label: Ganja
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:06
  • Community rating: 3.69/5 from 9 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Dream River' is a slow-burning and deeply evocative record that finds Bill Callahan at his most serene and poetic. The music features delicate, pastoral arrangements of woodwinds and guitars that perfectly complement his baritone vocals and deadpan delivery. It is a meditative exploration of life, love, and nature that feels timeless and profoundly calm.

Genres

Descriptors: literary, acoustic, minimal, storytelling, male-vocals

Tracklist

  1. The Sing (4:31)
  2. Javelin Unlanding (3:48)
  3. Small Plane (3:56)
  4. Spring (5:10)
  5. Ride My Arrow (5:03)
  6. Summer Painter (6:30)
  7. Seagull (5:39)
  8. Winter Road (5:29)

Credits

  • Bill Callahan - primary artist, illustration [ink drawings], songwriter [all songs by], vocals, guitar, composer, additional design/illustration, guitar instrument, lyricist, vocal
  • Jaime Zuverza - bass, electric piano [wurlitzer], organ, organ instrument, Wurlitzer electric piano instrument, bass instrument
  • Thor Harris - congas, claves, drums [kit], drums (drum set) instrument, congas instrument, claves instrument
  • Chojo Jacques - fiddle, fiddle instrument
  • Beth Galiger - flute, flute instrument
  • Matt Kinsey - guitar, guitar instrument
  • Roger Seibel - mastered by, mastering
  • Brian Beattie - mixed by, percussion, upright piano, percussion instrument, upright piano instrument, mix
  • Brad Bell - mixed by [assisted], assistant mix
  • Paul Ryan - painting [front]
  • Erik Wofford - recorded by

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