Blind Date Party is a recording project by Bill Callahan and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy made during the summer and fall of 2020. In the booklet accompanying the records, Callahan explained that the idea was borne out of the early days of the pandemic: the sense of aimlessness, of missing routine, and crucially, of understanding everyone else feels this way too. He and Will (and Drag City) developed this project as a way to address this time, to give as many people as possible an activity. So 19 musicians were each sent a song to cover, and then Will and Bill laid vocals over these versions.
Drag City commissioned me to make a large-format booklet to accompany the record. I interviewed all 21 participants on the record and edited their remarks into a fluid narrative. I worked with visual artists and music video directors to gather images for the booklet and designed the publication.
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