A Meditation on "35" by Bill Callahan
by Patty Yumi Cottrell
Bill Callahan is a friend to everyone. A conjurer of mortal joy, he shows us how a song can be a mirror, a map of encounter, a shrine to solitude. We were thirty-five once, all of us, reading books by Herman Melville, David Berman, William Vollman (so many -man/men!), hoping they would tell us how to live or at least why. Why should we live? Listening to Bill's new song "35" I take a walk with... (read more)

35
posted July 13th, 2020
Artists in this story: Bill Callahan