There was no small talk, which suited Bruce fine. "Never met him, never Zoomed, never called. The two struck up an ongoing correspondence via email, "and it only stayed at emails," Bruce explains. "They just happened to reach out to him and he'd actually heard my first record and was kind of a fan!" When her publishing team asked who she'd like to work with, she submitted Callahan's name near the top of the wish list. But it felt like that was the moment where it all tied in together."Ī prolific musician with a catalogue spanning 35 years, both under his own name and as Smog, Callahan is the kind of songwriter who inspires cult-like devotion from fans and fellow artists alike. "It was really weird because it literally summed up all the songs – the songs that he hadn't even heard. "That was one of Bill's lines, believe it or not" Bruce tells Double J's Tim Shiel. And yet the Australian singer-songwriter still benefited greatly from collaborating with US singer-songwriter Bill Callahan for her album, Deep Is The Way. Right down to that zen title. Well, technically, Gena Rose Bruce didn't.
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