We just pretty much went back and forth for a few months with all these lyrics." "He just came back with some amazing lyrics. "I just never would have pictured Bill writing about those themes," she explains. 'Am I just pouring heart-shaped coffee for someone who wanted a gin?' They co-wrote two songs together: the album's title track 'Deep Is The Way', a folksy duet where Callahan's rustic mahogany-wood burr contrasts beautifully with Bruce's velvety vocals, and ' Foolishly In Love'.Ī relatively upbeat song illuminated by synths and propulsive rhythms, the latter track shows how Bruce's sound and writing has evolved, bringing nuanced perspective to the well-worn theme of blossoming romance with lines like: "Just straight down to the lyrics, and I felt really comfortable with showing him exactly what I wanted to show him." 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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