Audio: Bill Callahan – If You Could Touch Her at All (Lee Clayton Cover)

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Bill Callahan closed out the year of his Apocalypse with a fall jaunt through Europe that wrapped in Paris over the weekend. Included in the encore at that show and others was a rare cover tune from the man formerly known as Smog: “If You Could Touch Her at All,” a Lee Clayton-penned song made popular by Waylon Jennings in 1974. Thanks to Permanent Smile, we can hear a recording of his faithful take from the set in Poland above.

http://static.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid1089.photobucket.com/albums/i359/dg11469/October 24 2011 – October 30 2011/beirutfallon-1.mp4

Video: Beirut – Santa Fe (Live on Fallon)

BTW the limited edition of the The Rip Tide LP comes in a hardcover cloth packaging which is p-r-e-t-t-y cool.