Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

Bill Callahan

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 14, 2009)
• Original Release Date: April 14, 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Drag City
• ASIN: B001Q2EIXG
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,110 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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2009 release. At the risk of being redundant, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle is about as beautiful an album as you can expect to hear sung circa 2009. Unfolding like a first view of paradise, then a slightly less ecstatic second view of paradise and then finally a glance back over your shoulder at that stupid paradise bulls***, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle surveys a landscape that grows organically, like the time two people spend together; or the time one person spends alone (with another). One way or another, it's awfully pretty.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AFTER THE STORM, May 4, 2009

By	Gideon (Italy) - See all my reviews

We stepped into the record shop (we stll do that) and it was there: the sound filled every corner on that calm afternoon before Easter, the opalescent light of the cloudy day merging perfectly with the music. The place was nearly empty, just ready for the record to unfurl its tapestry of cellos, French horns and soft rhythms topped by a voice blending JOHNNY CASH with BRYAN FERRY and NICK DRAKE. That is, an imposing oak with a slender birch as its core.

We asked a shop assistant if that was BILL CALLAHAN's cd playing and were pleased when he said yes; we had guessed the artist without having heard any of his albums, not even those he recorded as SMOG.

We wandered around the shop. Bought cds by Rickie Lee Jones and Marc & The Mambas. Then left. Struck by sudden hesitation, we had not picked up Mr Callahan.

A mistake, indeed. A few hours later that sound was still on our mind, generating a tenuous but steady throb we ended up calling...longing? yearning? love?

It is now two weeks after the Revelation before, and SOMETIMES I WISH WE WERE AN EAGLE, BILL CALLAHAN's second solo album, has been spinning in our player for a few days.

We now know what we experienced in that shop on that calm, cloudy day: this is the sound you hear just after the Storm has ended. Any Storm in your life: when everything is clear but sorrow is still there, ready to be measured and analysed. Impeccably accomplished, yet still dangerous in a tantalizing way.

This record possesses a ruthless poestic voice. It is lucid despair and unmeasurable relief. It is regret and strength. Torment and detachment. It is darkness in light, and light in darkness.

It is up there with FRED NEIL by FRED NEIL and PINK MOON by NICK DRAKE.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EMOTION is a small word with a BIG landscape of meaning, June 25, 2009

By	Willie Boy - See all my reviews

As an avid watcher of the Discovery Channel I understand when I find something this great it should be massaged gently....

This is in no doubt THE biggest find of 2009...

Emotion is a small word with overwhelming meaning and this new album by Callahan is in the realm of dream-like perfection.
I had so many feelings emerge and a new life of thought... that I Sometimes Wish We Were An Eagle.....

I found a fountain of youth in the songs and will shower in its beauty for the rest of 2009 and most likely until I die.


To vacate the songs as individual would be a disgrace to the beauty of its whole.. The flow of spiritual release -it's astounding !!

Kudos to Mr. Bill for such a fine album
with the trash music today this is a breath of fresh air
and reminds me of how...
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle



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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Beautiful Record, June 3, 2009

By	Mark Abrahamsen "Eliott" (Desolation Row) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This is definately the most beautiful record Bill Callahan has done, it's definately well worth buying.