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Singer-songwriter Bill Callahan: ‘I’m not a craftsman – I’m more of a drunk professor who likes coincidence and mistakes’

歌手兼词曲作者比尔·卡拉汉:“我不是工匠——更像是个喜欢巧合和错误的醉酒教授”

‘I’m precise about lyrics but everything else is: throw it at the wall’ … Bill Callahan.

‘I’m precise about lyrics but everything else is: throw it at the wall’ … Bill Callahan.

2026-01-08  1713  困难
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I’ve heard that you lived in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, roughly between the ages of 12 and 15. What did you do for fun at that time? pinballfilmsI wasn’t quite a teenager, more like age seven to 12. There was a lot of farmland that we weren’t really supposed to be on, but we couldn’t help ourselves. And there was a particular farmer that had the most land, and he had orchards. I loved being in the apple orchards with all the trees lined up. The farmer would often come chasing us. Mostly it was climbing walls, going places that we weren’t supposed to be, exploring the river and fishing. In the last year I was there, I started getting into music and going to record stores. Moving from Maryland, the biggest culture shock was that when you’re in America, you’re just one of the guys, but when you’re in England in the 70s and you’re an American, you’re kind of from another planet. A lot of the [popular] music and TV was American. People were watching Dallas, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman and Starsky & Hutch. In a way, [being American] was like being a movie star. England at the time was a rough place compared with what I was used to, like that movie Kes. There would be gangs of punks roaming around and causing trouble, like A Clockwork Orange.

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