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Like WILD LOVE and KNOCK KNOCK, RED APPLE FALLS represents the more elaborate side of Bill Callahan's discography. His outsider/loser image is still perfectly intact, but it is shaped here with a more expansive sonic palette. Everything from French horn and pedal steel to hurdy gurdy is employed on these unassumingly poetic tales of self-loathing. There's a larger cast than usual at work here, and the denser musical texture may be the reason Callahan's lyrical self-deprecation seems more like an artistic device than a desperate cry in the wilderness. The use of more natural, organic imagery in the songs, however, adds an extra level of depth to the subtle, carefully constructed lyrics.

Recorded from October 30 to November 3, 1996.

Smog: Bill Callahan (vocals, guitar, piano, Hammond B-3 organ, synthesizer).

Additional personnel: Ken Champion (pedal steel guitar); Thymme Jones (trumpet, piano, drums); Donna Maroni (French horn); James O'Rourke (hurdy gurdy, piano, Hammond B-3 organ, bass, drums); Matt Weston, Robot (drums).

Q (6/97, p.139) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...[Bill] Callahan lures you in, only to break you on the rocks of his seemingly inescapable depression. Another field day then, for fans of weepy minimalism."
Option (7-8/97, p.128) - "...[Leader Bill Callahan] has decisively freed Smog from the clutch of lo-fi and introduced it to the mature world of fine-tuned fidelity....all the unabashed musicality of a deliberately well-produced album."
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List Price $15.98 (You save $2.93)
Category Rock Albums, Alternative CDs, Rock/Pop, Lo Fi
Label Touch & Go
Orig Year 1997
All Time Sales Rank   25104  
CD Universe Part number 1050101
Catalog number 116
Discs 1
Release Date May 20, 1997
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer James O'Rourke; Bill Callahan
Personnel Bill Callahan - vocals, guitar, piano, Hammond B-3 organ, synthesizer

Also: James O'Rourke, Ken Champion, Thymme Jones, Robot, Donna Maroni, Matt Weston
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Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample1.Morning Paper, The  
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample2.Blood Red Bird
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample3.Red Apples  
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample4.I Was a Stranger
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample5.To Be of Use
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample6.Red Apple Falls
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample7.Ex-Con
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample8.Inspirational
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample9.Finer Days

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