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- Record Label: Drag City
- Release Date: Apr 14, 2009
- Summary: Previously known as Smog, Bill Callahan releases only the second album under his real name.
- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Top Track
| Jim Cain | |
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| I started out in search of ordinary things How much of a tree bends in the wind I started telling the story without knowing the end I used to be... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 23
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Mixed: 4 out of 23
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Negative: 0 out of 23
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MojoSometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle is a record of grand hopes and epic imagery, and powerful, uplifting music--the most accomplished of his 20-year career. [Apr 2009, p.102]
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What makes Eagle so strong is that the music stayed light, and those bucolic splashes of washed-out color contrast so well against Bill Callahan’s blues.
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Callahan sprinkles his world-weary perspective with enough wry humor to make the album pleasant and endearing.
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It is perhaps a seminal new chapter in Callahan's oeuvre of higher yet lo-fi outsider music.
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The music is imaginative like a good dream--not the kind some of his older records intimated, the kind in which you’re walking but can’t move forward.
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The entire first half of Eagle shows Callahan as a much more evolved and mature musician. He appears more comfortable expanding his musical space, and he exercises tasteful restraint with Beattie’s strings.
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Under The RadarThere are moments peaking around 'The Wind And The Dove' with its gauzy Wurlitzer and "Thief Of Baghdad arrangements. Later, 'Rococo Zephyr' and 'My Friend' start in interesting places but slowly dissolve into the album's clunky tail section. [Spring 2009, p.65]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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Mixed: 1 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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ReubenParksApr 16, 2009Great Album!
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GrubeckkafahinApr 15, 2009Record of the year! Bill's best.
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AndyjApr 17, 2009
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JoannaApr 28, 2009One of the best albums of 2009 for me.
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GrantMacMillanApr 24, 2009Outstanding.
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May 1, 2012
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