Bill Callahan & Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Blind Date Party

Double LP

Featuring Drag City label collaborators and a host of gospel, country, pop and rock covers

Lockdown double album is playful and spirited!

Bill Callahan and Bonnie "Prince" Billy shared the songs on Blind Date Party with a travel-challenged world through late 2020 into earlier this year. Now their online sensation comes home to roost on vinyl — the good ol' fashioned format where all these songs were originally heard in the first place! A record to, from, for and dedicated to almost everyone. Hats off! Pants off too — NOW it's a party!

"The newly issued Blind Date Party functions less like a singles collection and more like an overstuffed double album: discursive, playful, and full of imagination. While a few selections hew close to the country, hushed-folk balladry deep cuts one might expect — songwriters include Leonard Cohen, John Prine, Lowell George, and Robert Wyatt — they often veer into new territory, bouncing from hard rock to fluttering electronic pop, from meditative groovers to gospel, from the avant-garde to raucous sing-a-longs." — Pitchfork

Side A

1. The Blackness of the Night (feat. Azita)

2. OD'd in Denver (feat. Matt Sweeney)

3. I've Made Up My Mind (feat. Alasdair Roberts)

4. Red-Tailed Hawk (feat. Matt Kinsey)

5. Wish You Were Gay (feat. Sean O'Hagan)

6. Our Anniversary (feat. Dead Rider)

Side B

1. Rooftop Garden (feat. George Xylouris)

2. Deacon Blues (feat. Bill MacKay)

3. I Love You (feat. David Pajo)

Side C

1. Sea Song (feat. Mick Turner)

2. I've Been The One (feat. Meg Baird)

3. Miracles (feat. Ty Segall)

4. I Want to Go to the Beach (feat. Cooper Crain)

Side D

1. Night Rider's Lament (feat. Cory Hanson)

2. Arise, Therefore (feat. Six Organs of Admittance)

3. The Night of Santiago (feat. David Grubbs)

4. The Wild Kindness (feat. Cassie Berman)

5. Lost in Love (feat. Emmett Kelly)

6. She is My Everything (feat. Sir Richard Bishop)

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