Callahan, Bill: My Days Of 58 LP

"My Days Of 58" is the eighth Bill Callahan album, and his first since 2022. The twelve tunes here open uncanny depths of expression as Bill continues to blaze one of the most original songwriting-and-performance trails out there. With "My Days Of 58", he applies the living, breathing energies of his live shows to the studio process, sharpening his slice-of-life portraiture to cut deeper than ever before. The core musicians featured on "My Days Of 58" is the group that toured for 2022's "Reality": guitarist Matt Kinsey, saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi, and drummer Jim White, whose synergy was evident in 2024's live "Resuscitate!". This showed Bill, as he puts it, "that they could handle anything I threw at them", adding: "Improv/ unpredictability/the unknown is the thing that keeps me motivated to keep making music. It's all about listening to yourself and others. A lot of the best parts of a recording are the mistakes - making them into strengths, using them as springboards into something human".