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By Clay McNear

Published on March 05, 2008 at 4:01am

It’s hard to overlook the power of shyness and the greatness it sometimes engenders. Eminent fraidy cats: Albert Einstein. Abraham Lincoln. Lucille Ball! Bill Callahan’s not quite famous, but you can still add him to the list. The lo-fi pioneer, a.k.a. Smog, is a mouse who’s learned to roar — quietly — with his stripped-bare sound and jet-black irony that’s often misinterpreted as alienation.
Thu., March 6, 8:30 p.m., 2008