You are tuned in to the NPD Broadcast Network presentation of Off Camera with Sam Jones.

The best conversations happen off camera.

Hello and welcome to another edition of Off Camera.

I'm your host, Sam Jones, and in this episode, I sit down with Val McCallum.

Whether or not you've heard of Val, you've undoubtedly heard his work.

Val is a supremely talented guitarist, singer, songwriter, and studio musician

who got his start recording for the legendary

songwriter Harry Nielsen at age 18. After 30 years of working with such artists as Jackson Brown,

Lucinda Williams, The Wallflowers, Bonnie Raite, and countless others, Val has released his first

solo record, entitled, At the End of the

Day, It is a Collection of Spare, Acoustic, and Grippingly Intimate Songs. We grabbed Val between

stops on his current tour with Jackson Brown and gigs with his own wickedly humorous country band Jack

Shit, where he performs as alter ego Bo Shit. Val grew up in a song. and gigs with his own wickedly humorous country band Jack Schitt,

where he performs as alter ego, Bo Shit.

Val grew up in Los Angeles and is the son of actor David McCallum and actress Jill Ireland.

But Ireland raised Val with Charles Bronson, who she married when Val was a young boy.

Val discovered the guitar at age eight and arguably hung onto it for dear life through some tough twists and turns, including the tragic death of his brother Jason and the loss of his

mother to cancer.

In, at the end of the day, Val opens these wounds and sings with touching candor about themes

that are at once deeply personal and universally human.

It's a record about loss, grief, and loneliness that somehow manages to create a mood

of catharsis, promise, and understanding.

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