Callahan, Bill: Resuscitate! LP

 The date was March 22, 2022. Bill Callahan strode onto the stage at Chicago's Thalia Hall, flanked by Matt Kinsey on guitar, Dustin Laurenzi on alto sax, and Jim White on the kit. They all were feeling good, and it seemed like the crowd was also. But that wasn't all. They had some special surprises planned - take it away, Bill: "this is a live album that was taken from the tour for "Reality" Songs tend to mutate after they've been recorded. These songs were mutating faster than usual. I knew these songs were about to get superpowers. As far as I was concerned, this change needed to be documented. The date was mid-point in the tour, so I knew we'd be as hot as we were going to get. Not too green, not too brown. So we took advantage of Chicago's easily accessible players - we got Nick Mazzarella to add alto sax to one song, and from the opening band, Pascal Kerong’A to sing on a song, and Nathaniel Ballinger on piano on one song - and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to invite Joshua Abrams and Lisa Alvarado to play on "Natural Information". The hardest part of making the record was cutting songs out - it could have been a triple album".