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I Drive a Valence : The Collected Lyrics of Bill Callahan by Bill Callahan (2017, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDrag City

ISBN-101937112152

ISBN-139781937112158

eBay Product ID (ePID)239503282

Product Key Features

Book TitleI Drive a Valence : the Collected Lyrics of Bill Callahan

Number of Pages198 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicPrinted Music / General, Lyrics, Genres & Styles / Rock

IllustratorYes

GenreMusic

AuthorBill Callahan

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8.5 Oz

Item Length5.5 in

Item Width8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal782.421640268

SynopsisUntil we have a feature film in which Bill Callahan's words are spoken by the true and deep characters who exist within the songs, the best format will be this lyric book -- wait, no, the best format will always be the albums featuring the songs, since they are sung by Bill Callahan, the author and singer, in his own inimitable and completely individual fashion. I Drive a Valence, however, which spans two decades of Smog/ Bill Callahan songs, is a fairly unforgettable look-see; in fact, it's a definitive-yet-concise trip through the mirror, collecting the lyrics to 70 songs and pairing them with 116 dreamy inkwash images by the man himself. The nuances and ambiguities within plain-spoke expression are at the exquisite center of Callahan's gift, and the plain fact of words on paper nails them down in a concrete fashion that signals eternity somehow more concretely than sounds in the air can conjure. I Drive a Valence does this for the listener -- makes him/her a reader, while putting Bill Callahan's songs on another shelf where they sit just as entirely as they do on LP shelves around the world., I Drive a Valence is a book of lyrics by Bill Callahan, the author and singer, whose songs (stories, really) are performed in his own inimitable and completely individual fashion. The book spans two decades of Smog/Bill Callahan songs. It is a fairly unforgettable look-see; in fact, it's a definitive-yet-concise trip through the mirror, collecting the lyrics to 70 songs and pairing them with 116 dreamy ink-wash images by the man himself.

LC Classification NumberML54.6