{"product_id":"i-drive-a-valence-the-collected-lyrics-of-bill-callahan-9781937112158","title":"I Drive a Valence: The Collected Lyrics of Bill Callahan","description":"Until we have a feature film in which Bill Callahan's words are spoken by the true and deep characters who exist within the songs, the best format will be this lyric book -- wait, no, the best format will always be the albums featuring the songs, since they are sung by Bill Callahan, the author and singer, in his own inimitable and completely individual fashion. I Drive a Valence, however, which spans two decades of Smog\/ Bill Callahan songs, is a fairly unforgettable look-see; in fact, it's a definitive-yet-concise trip through the mirror, collecting the lyrics to 70 songs and pairing them with 116 dreamy inkwash images by the man himself. The nuances and ambiguities within plain-spoke expression are at the exquisite center of Callahan's gift, and the plain fact of words on paper nails them down in a concrete fashion that signals eternity somehow more concretely than sounds in the air can conjure. I Drive a Valence does this for the listener -- makes him\/her a reader, while putting Bill Callahan's songs \u003cbr\u003eon another shelf where they sit just as entirely as they do on LP shelves around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Drag City\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781937112158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Bill Callahan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43228389474485,"sku":"9781937112158","price":16.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2e1809fd-f4aa-48f3-95a5-33bb6fa544d3.jpg?v=1698725756","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/i-drive-a-valence-the-collected-lyrics-of-bill-callahan-9781937112158","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}