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I saw Bill Callahan, aka Smog, play a show last week and it was unnecessarily good. Callahan seemed to acknowledge this during one of the few times he addressed the crowd. "I just wanted to note," he said, "that I'm singing very well tonight." Perhaps the quality of the show was due to the fact that the new Smog album, A River Ain't Too Much to Love, is clearly his best album to date, or maybe it was just that the sweltering heat was making me dizzy. Whatever it was, every song played, especially the ones off of the new album, felt like a classic. I was in a state of stupid grinning for the whole show it seemed, my heart rate rising every time he started in on another song.

This song is from a bootleg of the show. It is one of my favourites from the album and sounds just as beautiful here.

Smog - Rock Bottom Riser (live)

Jay already did a great post on the new Smog album, and you can read it here. You can also find one of the better reviews of A River Ain't Too Much to Love, written by Sean at Said the Gramophone, right here. If you're interested, here's a link to another amazing song from the album (via Insound).

Smog - I Feel Like the Mother of the World