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Red Apple Falls by Smog (CD, May-1997, Touch & Go) 
Red Apple Falls by Smog (CD, May-1997, Touch & Go)

 
Red Apple Falls by Smog (CD, May-1997, Touch & Go)

Artist: Smog
Release Date: May 1997
Format: CD
Record Label: Touch & Go
Genre: Lo Fi, Rock & Pop
UPC: 036172911622
Product ID: EPID3263588
Description: 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, H...
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Track Listing
1. Morning Paper, The
2. Blood Red Bird
3. Red Apples
4. I Was a Stranger
5. To Be of Use
6. Red Apple Falls
7. Ex-Con
8. Inspirational
9. Finer Days

Details
Contributing Artists:James O'Rourke, Thymme Jones
Producer:Bill Callahan, James O'Rourke
Distributor:Alternative Dis. Alliance
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
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).
Recorded from October 30 to November 3, 1996.
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.

Editorial Reviews
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.
Q (06/01/1997)

...[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.
Option (07/01/1997)

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.
Q (06/01/1997)

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