“My Days of 58” is the title of the new album from Bill Callahan, due 27th February 2026 via Drag City. “My Days of 58” applies the energies of Callahan’s live shows to the studio process, while sharpening his slice-of-life portraiture. The twelve tunes feature the core musicians that toured for 2022’s “YTI⅃AƎЯ”: guitarist Matt Kinsey, saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi and drummer Jim White, whose synergy was evident on 2024’s live album, “Resuscitate!”. This touring experience showed Callahan “that they could handle anything I threw at them,” as he puts it, adding: “Improv/unpredictability/the unknown is the thing that keeps me motivated to keep making music. It’s all about listening to yourself and others. A lot of the best parts of a recording are the mistakes — making them into strengths, using them as springboards into something human.”
“My Days of 58” is Callahan’s eighth studio album, following 2022’s “YTI⅃AƎЯ”. In addition to the core band, there are contributions from Richard Bowden (fiddle), Pat Thrasher (piano), Chris Vreeland (bass), Mike St. Clair (trombone), Bill McCullough (pedal steel), Eve Searls (backing vocals), and Jerry DeCicca (tambourine).
You can pre-save / pre-order “My Days Of 58” here.
The first single, “The Man I’m Supposed to Be,” is described as Callahan’s “singular take on a folk-rock confessional song with a country title”. ‘The Man I’m Supposed to Be‘ sees Callahan exploring the feel of a life that was lived and one that’s meant to be. Moods change as he goes – the guitars strike up from dreamy to gritty, as bluesy sax wails and the morphing drum arrangement moves from brooding and introspective to danceable to low-key anthemic! The opening line immediately sets the tone: “I saw that demon inside me/ trying to claim my body as its own”.
