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| Smog: Bill Callahan (vocals, acoustic, electric, Spanish & slide guitars, mandolin, ukulele, fiddle, flute, saxophone, piano, organ, bass, drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Cynthia Dall (vocals). Includes liner notes by Bill Callahan. Bill Callahan, aka Smog, started taping his music in the dark, lo-fi insularity of his bedroom/basement/whatever, and it is remarkable to see his songs finally come out into the light. THE DOCTOR CAME AT DAWN peels away about 20 layers of the gray-noise fuzz usually found on Smog records, to reveal a wondrous, emotionally-direct batch of folk songs. Welcome to the hi-fi bedroom recordings of the spiritually unstable (and tales thereof). The sheer voyeurism of Callahan's acoustic-guitar-and-dread approach makes it difficult to listen to THE DOCTOR CAME AT DAWN at times. But that's also a mark of craftsmanship. Minor details like the use of singer Cynthia Dall as a foil on the gentle yet biting "Lize," the ambient synth that protrudes through every bit of "Spread Your... |
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Key Information
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| Number of Discs: |
1 |
| Contributing Artist: |
Cynthia Dall |
| Record Label: |
Drag City |
| Artist: |
Smog |
| Album Duration: |
38m:59s |
| Release Date: |
September 10, 1996 |
| Subgenre: |
Alternative |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
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Song List: Disc 1
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- You Moved In
- Somewhere in the Night
- Lize
- Spread Your Bloody Wings
- Carmelite Light
- Everything You Touch Becomes a Crutch
- All Your Women Things
- Whistling Teapot (Rag)
- Four Hearts in a Can
- Hangman Blues
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