As you listen to Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, a feeling of totality, of completeness, steals over you, like a thief in broad daylight. Of course it does - you’re listening to a new Bill Callahan record! The first one in almost six years! What more do you need to complete you?

In it’s final mix, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest glows incandescent - an entirely acoustic arrangement, sounds and stories shifting seamlessly, almost like one big song made of a bunch of new stories - the kind that only Bill Callahan thinks to sing.