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Bill Callahan
Gold Record
Drag City
For the best part of 20 years Bill Callahan was barely there – hiding behind the drift of a name. Smog. Sometimes it was in brackets. (Smog). And then, seemingly out of nowhere, and with enough of a reputation as a brilliant, idiosyncratic songwriter, he shook off that fug and started releasing albums under his own name.…
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