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Sir Richard Bishop is not a knight; yet again, he's no lady, either (...I think). He's just a guy, often in a hat, who can wail the heck out of an acoustic guitar, and write some wacky songs besides.

Polytheistic Fragments is former Sun City Girl Sir Richard Bishop's second album of 2007, following the invitingly-titled While My Guitar Violently Bleeds, and it's due September 25 from Drag City. However, Chicago-dwellers who happen into Whole Foods stores in the city's Lakeview, Lincoln Park, and South Loop neighborhoods tomorrow (September 22) at 2 p.m. (central) can hear Fragments and the Red Krayola's Sighs Trapped by Liars while they decide between 62 different brands of homemade granola. Sweet!

Bishop has a date with Low this weekend, and another round with Bill Callahan to follow.

Polytheistic Fragments:

01 Cross My Palm With Silver
02 Hecate's Dream
03 Elysium Number Five
04 Rub' al Khali
05 Free Masonic Guitar
06 Cemetary Gates
07 Quiescent Return
08 Saraswati
09 Tennessee Porch Song
10 Canned Goods & Firearms
11 Ecstasies in the Open Air

Bishop:

09-21 Portland, OR - Doug Fir ^
10-05 Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex *
10-06 Santa Cruz, CA - The Kuumbwa *
10-07 San Francisco, CA - The Independent *
10-09 Portland, OR - Mission Theatre *
10-10 Seattle, WA - Triple Door *
10-16 Denver, CO - The Bluebird Theatre *
10-18 Vancouver, British Columbia - Vancouver New Music Festival

^ with Low
* with Bill Callahan