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Rising to prominence in the early 1990s under the alias Smog, Maryland’s Bill Callahan (born June 3rd, 1966), raised in the rural English county of North Yorkshire, is credited as one of the lo-fi rock scene’s early innovators, with his pared-back four-track home recordings exploring bleak themes of loneliness, hopelessness and distant memories with a beguiling sincerity. A self-sufficient multi-instrumentalist who knows his way around not only a guitar but also the piano, banjo and harmonica, he initially found himself most comfortable composing instrumentals, although his count...