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MORNING BREW

posted August 10th, 2020

For the past month, we suddenly love Monday. The best part of waking up is a new Bill Callahan song. This week, you can listen to the new song AND take it to a new (caffeinated) level with a "Breakfast" blast for your mug.

In celebration of Gold Record, we've partnered up with coffee roasters Four Letter Word to present a special coffee for your "Breakfast" enjoyment. It's a single origin from Colombia produced by Guillermo Rojas, with a nicely complex profile: much like the song itself, the coffee starts out strong, with "healthy fruit" (juicy, bright green apple notes), then ends righteously with a bittersweet desert (bittersweet dark chocolate with sticky coconut sugar, y'all!). Just what we're always looking for: an excellent pairing, and a great "Breakfast" overall.
 


Bill's new song, an elegantly-crafted country song forged from classic material, depicts the eclipse of a domestic partnership. The emphatic doom of a descending bass line anchors the tune, with tart, double-jointed Callahanian lines about the helplessness of the divide: "she's been leaving like a suntan ever since this sunset began / and when she leaves the surgery, she leaves her watch in me."

Listen to "Breakfast" above, grab a bag of our collaboration roast while you're at it, and start your morning out right!
 

Artists in this story: Bill Callahan