Third Man Records Releases Live LPs From WHY? and Bill Callahan

Today, Third Man Records is excited to release the two newest LPs from its Live At Third Man Records series, in which an artist records a performance live-to-tape in Third Man's famed Blue Room in Nashville. These new entries come courtesy of WHY? and Bill Callahan, and both of them are now available digitally and on 12" LP. WHY? Live At Third Man Records is now available HERE, and Bill Callahan Live At Third Man Records can be found HERE. Listen to WHY?'s "Gnashville" from the LP HERE, and find Bill Callahan's "Jim Cain" HERE.

WHY? Live At Third Man Records

Available digitally and on 12" LP HERE

WHY? - the hip-hop inspired indie-pop band fronted by Yoni Wolf - visited Third Man Records' Nashville Blue Room two months after their first release in five years, Moh Lhean, hit record shelves. Despite no geographical connection, the night felt like a homecoming. The Wolf brothers and their prolificacy have long been on Third Man's radar, and the quartet's familial sensibilities radiated off the Blue Room stage and into the crowd, who sang along in harmony by the end of the night.

Setlist

Recorded live-to-tape on May 3rd, 2017

Proactive Evolution

These Hands

Strawberries

One Mississippi

Song of the Sad Assassin

Gnashville

The Vowels Pt. 2

White English

The Barely Blur

Bill Callahan Live At Third Man Records
Available on MP3 at Apple Music & Amazon and on 12" LP HERE
Bill Callahan, fka Smog, is simultaneously a staple of strange American country, lofi, folk, and independent music. His lyricism comes across as challenging and deeply autobiographical, equal parts "poetry leaning on true-to-life darkness" and "three chords and the truth."

So, it is fitting that Callahan's live set would command the same sense of friendliness-with-difficulty that the recorded songs do. With brief, candid, and charming interludes between older and newer material, an outsider can hear that this performance was obviously a full-bodied (and multi-era) engagement, no space left for distraction. "Jim Cain" is a phenomenal song in any iteration, no doubt about it, but this live recording is unabashedly disrobed, tender, and saved for a sympathetic ear. The full album is an experience; make it one you look after.

Setlist

Recorded live-to-tape October 11th, 2017

Spring

Jim Cain

Ride My Arrow

One Fine Morning

Drover

Riding For The Feeling