Red Apple Falls | ||||
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Studio album by Smog | ||||
Released | May 20, 1997 | |||
Recorded | October 30 - November 3, 1996 | |||
Genre | Lo-fi | |||
Length | 43:20 | |||
Label | Drag City | |||
Producer | Jim O'Rourke, Bill Callahan | |||
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Red Apple Falls is the sixth album by Smog (the alias of Bill Callahan), released in May 1997 on Drag City and re-released in Europe in 2001 by Domino.
It was recorded by Jim O'Rourke and Callahan, with assistance from Phil Bonnet. It is the first of two Smog records produced by O'Rourke, and Callahan's third team-up with O'Rourke. He also played bass guitar, piano, Hammond organ, hurdy-gurdy and drums.
"Ex-Con" was released as a single. An early version of "Red Apples" first appeared on Callahan's first EP Floating in 1991, and was later covered by Chan Marshall for her album The Covers Record. "I Was a Stranger" was redone by Callahan for the 2000 EP 'Neath the Puke Tree.