Smog-sayers! Callahan connoisseurs! Purveyors of good taste, wherever you hide! We call your attention today to the final single off Bill's new record, My Days of 58: take a deep breath and listen to "Stepping Out for Air" today.

"Stepping Out for Air" sits underneath overcast skies, where Bill considers "a walk among the Zoloft pines" and beauty in the little things. Dotted with small jokes, little asides and a prayerful phrase or two — and blown down the path by the gentle breezes of his horn section — Bill’s song rises up from murmurs of quietude, taking form as a ballad before riding out at great heights of spiritual abidance. It's a song Bill's had ready and waiting for some time. As he tells it:

"This is the song with the oldest origins on the album, tho it was never fully finished until just before the 58 sessions. 

It existed in some form about 15 years ago when it was intended as part of a record I planned to make with Jim White and Warren Ellis. Logistics seemed impossible because Warren was on endless Nick Cave tours so that project evaporated. Maybe it’ll form as a rain cloud and rain down on us someday. 

I held on to the song and it finally found a home on this record as the world cycled back into it having relevance. I like this song. It feels good."

– Bill Callahan, 2026

Put one foot out the door and play "Stepping Out for Air" on your way out — My Days of 58 isn't far off! The mighty new Bill Callahan record arrives February 27, 2026.