A River Ain't Too Much to Love is Smog

Smog (band)

Bill Callahan , is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has also recorded and performed under the band name Smog. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders...

's eleventh album, released on May 30, 2005 on Domino Records in Europe and a day later on Drag City

Drag City (record label)

Drag City is a Chicago-based independent record label. It was established with a Royal Trux release in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.Drag City specializes in experimental indie rock acts...

 in North America. The album features guest appearances by Joanna Newsom

Joanna Newsom

Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.- Early life :Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California...

 and Thor Harris

Thor Harris

Thor Harris is a musician, painter, and carpenter. He is the percussionist for Shearwater , a band from Austin, Texas. He has performed with Bill Callahan, The Angels of Light, Lisa Germano, Gretchen Phillips, Devendra Banhart, Rebecca Cannon, Rob Halverson and Swans...

 of Shearwater

Shearwater (band)

Shearwater is an American indie rock band formed in Austin, Texas in 1999 by Okkervil River members Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff, although Sheff is no longer with Shearwater.-History:...

. Music videos were produced for both "Rock Bottom Riser

Rock Bottom Riser

"Rock Bottom Riser" is a single by Smog from his 2005 album A River Ain't Too Much to Love. Pitchfork Media rated it . Song was used in a 2008 movie "The Skyjacker".-Track listing:#"Rock Bottom Riser"...

" and "I Feel Like the Mother of the World," the latter featuring actress Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Stevens Sevigny is an American film actress, fashion designer and former model. Sevigny gained reputation for her eclectic fashion sense and developed a broad career in the fashion industry in the mid 1990s, both for modeling and for her work at New York's Sassy magazine, which labeled her...

. Both videos can be found on the "Rock Bottom Riser" CD single release.

Track listing

All songs written by Bill Callahan except where noted.

1. "Palimpsest" – 2:52
2. "Say Valley Maker" – 5:10
3. "The Well" – 7:00
4. "Rock Bottom Riser
   Rock Bottom Riser
   "Rock Bottom Riser" is a single by Smog from his 2005 album A River Ain't Too Much to Love. Pitchfork Media rated it . Song was used in a 2008 movie "The Skyjacker".-Track listing:#"Rock Bottom Riser"...
   
   " – 5:44
5. "I Feel Like the Mother of the World" – 3:09
6. "In the Pines" (Traditional) – 5:12
7. "Drinking at the Dam" – 4:07
8. "Running the Loping" – 6:55
9. "I'm New Here" – 3:59
10. "Let Me See the Colts" – 6:39

Credits

• Bill Callahan – vocals, various instruments, guitar
• Connie Lovatt
  The Pacific Ocean (band)
  The Pacific Ocean was an American indie rock band formed in 1996 and based in New York City.Edward Baluyut had left Versus in 1996 due to work and family commitments and had played drums for Connie Lovatt's band Containe that year. Shortly afterward, Connie and Edward formed The Pacific Ocean...
  
   – vocals, bass guitar
• Jim White
  Jim White (drummer)
  Jim White is an Australian drummer . He is the drummer for the Dirty Three, a band formed in Melbourne, but he has also played with a number of other groups, including:*Tren Brothers, consisting of Jim White and Mick Turner, guitarist of the Dirty Three....
  
   – drums
• Thor Harris
  Thor Harris
  Thor Harris is a musician, painter, and carpenter. He is the percussionist for Shearwater , a band from Austin, Texas. He has performed with Bill Callahan, The Angels of Light, Lisa Germano, Gretchen Phillips, Devendra Banhart, Rebecca Cannon, Rob Halverson and Swans...
  
   – hammer dulcimer, airdrums, zills
• Travis Weller – fiddle
• Joanna Newsom
  Joanna Newsom
  Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.- Early life :Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California...
  
   – piano