{"product_id":"callahan-bill-i-drive-a-valence-books-9781937112158","title":"Callahan,bill - I Drive A Valence - Books","description":"I Drive a Valence: The Collected Lyrics of Bill Callahan by Bill Callahan \/ 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 on another shelf where they sit just as entirely as they do on LP shelves around the world.","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49220724031730,"sku":"DRGC6140","price":34.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/7018\/9810\/files\/4501585-3549807.jpg?v=1778949169","url":"https:\/\/discandvinyl.com\/products\/callahan-bill-i-drive-a-valence-books-9781937112158","provider":"DiscandVinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}