{"id":349873,"date":"2025-12-15T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349873\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:17:09","slug":"bill-callahan-shares-new-single-lonely-city-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349873\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Callahan Shares New Single “Lonely City”: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Days Of 58, the new Bill Callahan album, will be out a couple months into the new year. The elder-statesman indie singer-songwriter introduced this LP with “The Man I’m Supposed To Be<\/a>,” and he’s got an even better song for us today. <\/p>\n

Like so many Callahan tracks, “Lonely City” is carefully constructed but seems to ramble at a casual pace, as if it’s unfolding spontaneously. The meandering, off-the-dome feel is a perfect fit for lyrics about catching up with a place after time away. Although the subject matter implies venturing out into the world, “Lonely City” still exudes the “living room vibe” Callahan sought after for this record, too.<\/p>\n

His statement on the song:<\/p>\n

Lonely City is a song I\u2019ve been meaning to write for decades. It has been inside me that long. I tend to focus my writing on humans and the spirit within. So writing about concrete and steel felt like a no go. Like I\u2019m going to write a song about a car next?<\/p>\n

But of course cities are made by humans so they are human, too.<\/p>\n

You have a relationship with them, like friends. <\/p>\n

You get mad at them when you get a parking ticket, you love them when they offer you a nice meal. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a song acknowledging all this.<\/p>\n

Street photographer Daniel Arnold assembled the “Lonely City” video from 15 years’ worth of his own photos. Watch below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

My Days Of 58 is out 2\/27 on Drag City. Shout out to Callahan’s fellow Texas transplants Eve Searls and Jerry David DeCicca, who sang backup and played tambourine on this song, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My Days Of 58, the new Bill Callahan album, will be out a couple months into the new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-349873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}