Apr252024

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Bill Callahan, born in Silver Spring, Maryland. Callahan followed the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with homemade tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he signed a record contract with the label Drag City. Callahan started out as a highly experimental artist, utilizing sub-standard instruments and recording equipment. His reason for using the lo-fi approach was not so much an aesthetic choice, rather it came from his lack of knowledge of recording studios, and fear of giving up control to professional engineers. Read more on Last.fm

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Most Played Tracks as Scrobbled to Last.fm

# Title Plays
1Cold Blooded Old Times
490137
2Let's Move to the Country
353655
3I Feel Like the Mother of the World
331340
4Rock Bottom Riser
307660
5Dress Sexy at My Funeral
248322
6Drinking at the Dam
241541
7Teenage Spaceship
236674
8Held
224396
9Palimpsest
214969
10Hit the Ground Running
211761

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