Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest
by Bill Callahan
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Bill Callahan bestography
Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest is ranked 5th best out of 28 albums by Bill Callahan on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Bill Callahan is Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle which is ranked number 1917 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 882.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2019 | 85/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Ranked listening log 2019 201-300 | 21/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 2019 | 50/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 2019 | 28/50 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 2019 | 5/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 100 Music Albums of 2019 | 65/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Q magazine 2019 (2 B deleted) | 24/49 | - |
| 2026 |  LedZep | Top 100 Music Albums of 2019 | 99/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | jdizzle123456 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2019 | 66/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 2019 | 52/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 109 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 325 | |||
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Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/30/2026 14:15 | jon5417 | 4,103 | 68/100 |
| ! | 07/11/2026 03:32 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,615 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/02/2026 12:33 | JacobMullis | 780 | 88/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.9/100, a mean average of 72.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.
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pedro1976 01/04/2024 16:48 in What album are you listening to right now? pedro1976 01/03/2024 08:50 in What album are you listening to right now? Purplepash 04/22/2020 08:02 in What album are you listening to right now?Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest comments
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Man, i got this album so wrong initially. It is now my favourite album of 2019. There you have it. Always give albums time or else you may be discarding a potential fave. Genius.
Some really good rhythm, some really good lyrics … great album!
Totally stripped back sound. The voice is reminiscent of Cohen and Lightfoot. Nothing offensive and there are some really sweet moments
HoldenM 06/29/2019 08:08 | #238612 | TOP COMMENT
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I agree that it is the same song over and over for an hour, but goddamn is it a fucking great song. There's not a ton of dynamic range, but Callahan finds new layers and ideas track after track. If you want a beautiful, poignant folk epic, this one doesn't disappoint.
Well, this a bit of a difficult one, isn't it? It's probably his most challenging album to date. The main problem is that with twenty songs in just over an hour the album is too long and too plodding. Almost every track avoids a conventional melody and the all the songs sound too similar to each other while Callahan sings in that same deadpan phrasing pretty much all the way through. There are some good tracks here and there but even they get kind of lost amongst all the other songs. I feel that this album will grow on me but for now the record is too meandering and loose. Meandering and loose has of course always been a constant positive in Bill Callahan's music but here it kind of feels like everything outstays it's welcome even though the songs are relatively short. Yes, frustrated, but I'll stick with it a while longer yet. It's just that even by Bill Callahan standards I've never felt this initial, shall I dare say disappointment, before. I hate to use the word disappointment in reference to a Bill Callahan album but for now I am. But I shall stick with it hoping that it will eventually click. Or not.
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