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News: Gena Rose Bruce announces new album and unveils the title track ‘Deep Is The Way’, a simmering and beautiful new collaboration with Bill Callahan

The brilliant Gena Rose Bruce has followed up September’s single ‘Foolishly in Love’ with another Bill Callahan (SMOG) collaboration, the beautiful track ‘Deep Is The Way’. This time Callahan not…

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Track: The brilliant Gena Rose Bruce collaborates with Bill Callahan in sultry new track ‘Foolishly in Love’

We here at Backseat Mafia have been long time fans of Melbourne-based chanteuse Gena Rose Bruce with her smoky, sultry voice and reverb-inflected laconic style that comes across as a…

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TRACK: Bill Callahan – ‘Let’s Move to the Country’: Bill out-smogs himself

BESIDES being a songwriter we should grasp close to our chests, we’ve seen time and time again this summer that Bill Callahan has an incredible capacity to surprise. First he…

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TRACK: Bill Callahan reveals ‘Pigeons’ from new album

IT TURNS out he wasn’t joking. Last week’s announcement of a new Bill Callahan record in September included a cryptic passage, chatty and hyperbolic, stating: “Ten Whole Weeks until Gold…

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NEWS: Bill Callahan drops a gold record in September

EVERYONE’S favourite gravelly, bass-voiced, sad-eyed chronicler, Bill Callahan, has announced a new LP – Gold Record – just a year on since Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest. While Bill was preparing…

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Not Forgotten: Smog – A River Ain’t Too Much to Love

For the first minute or so there’s nothing but melancholic acoustic guitar and a far away harmonica. It’s moving, deeply moving. Then comes Bill Callahan’s voice, and you’re utterly invested.…

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