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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Conquer/You Have Been Seen 7”, 2017
Well hello to this little gem from Slowboy Records in Germany. One of those BPB 7” singles that pop up out of nowhere with a lovely sleeve, and some beautifully recorded songs with great sound. I recognise the name William … Continue reading
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Bonnie Prince Billy, Leonard/Carolyn 7”, 2017
One of those seemingly pointless singles that exist for…what reason? To promote the latest album, Best Troubador? To throw in a jukebox maybe? The a-side is the album track as is, while the b-side is the bonus here, and actually, it’s … Continue reading
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Masked And Anonymous Original Soundtrack, Various Artists, 2003
I saw this movie for the first time in 2009 and loved it. I understand the criticisms, why it’s a frustrating movie to watch from the traditional perspective that demands a coherent narrative, but I think it’s clear early on … Continue reading
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May Your Song Always Be Sung Again: The Songs Of Bob Dylan, Various Artists, 2001
This is the second collection of Bob Dylan covers put out on the German BMG label, and it’s fair to say these are some of the best various artists collections of Dylan covers around. Best, because they’re a great mix … Continue reading
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May Your Song Always Be Sung: The Songs of Bob Dylan, Various Artists, 1997
This is the first of three German-curated compilations of Dylan covers put out by Bertelsmann Music Group. The roster on all three compilations is diverse and interesting and draws from all over the spectrum, while many of the artists are … Continue reading
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United Artists for The Poet (Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary), Various Artists, 1991
This is an Italian compilation of Western artists released in 1991 to celebrate thirty years of Dylan whose first album, the self-titled Bob Dylan (1962) contained three Dylan originals written and recorded in 1961. A quick scan of the track list … Continue reading
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Hamilton Camp, Paths Of Victory, 1964
Hamilton Camp, also known as Bob Camp, was born in England 1934 and died an American in 2005. It seems he was more of an actor and voice-actor than singer-songwriter, but even so, he authored several songs for such pop … Continue reading
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Schipa Jr. Dylaniato, 1988
After listening to this album just once, I couldn’t not hear it as a semi-comic parody that translated Dylan into Italo showground-pop. Then I translated the sleeve notes by Fernando Pivano and found an earnest description of the arduous difficulties … Continue reading
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It Ain’t Me Babe: Great Artists Sing The Songs Of Bob Dylan, Various Artists, 1980
This Polystar compilation from 1980 was released in France, Ireland and the UK only. It seems nothing more than a quickly cobbled together collection of covers that had been around for a long time, and some titles that would appear … Continue reading
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Grandes Creaciones de Bob Dylan, Various Artists, 1978
When I bought this record from a seller in Spain, knowing nothing about it, I naturally assumed it was Dylan covers sung in Spanish. So I was surprised to hear English lyrics sung in American accents. Apparently in 1978, someone … Continue reading
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The Original Marauders, Now Your Mouth Cries Wolf: A Tribute To Bob Dylan, 1977
When I started this project in 2011 (reviewing all Dylan cover albums released on vinyl), this record was impossible to find anywhere. Jump forward six years and there’s plenty of original sealed copies going on eBay for cheap prices, as … Continue reading
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Ciaran Lavery, A King At Night: The Songs of Bonnie Prince Billy, 10″, 2017
So firstly, who is Ciaran Lavery and why is he covering Will Oldham? Good questions for which I have no answers. Is this a desperate bid for indie cred or is Lavery a long time Oldham fan? Likely the latter, … Continue reading
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Nathan Salsburg, Beargrass Song 7”, 2017
This 7” was released to coincide with Record Store Day 2017. The last time Oldham presented a record store day release was his Hummingbird 10” from 2012. His collaborator here, guitarist Nathan Salsburg a fellow Kentuckian, may well be responsible … Continue reading
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Silver Palace, Sea Note Presents Mr. Jews 7”, 2005
A mildly comic, novel, promotional record, this seven incher features Rian Murphy of Drag City Records “interviewing” David Berman on one side and Will Oldham on the other about a rumoured collaboration that fans have been asking for. I know … Continue reading
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((Sounder)) featuring Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Swallowed By The Mist, 7”, 2014
Firstly, I’m not American, so I’m unfamiliar with the brand Volcom, who produce clothing and gear for boardheads, meaning skateboarding, snowboarding and surfing. Of these three, snowboarding is my personal pick of the bunch. Anyway, it’s common knowledge that Will … Continue reading
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Bonnie Prince Billy & Oscar Parsons, The Happy Song/At The Corner Of The Stairs 7”, 2016
This 7” single seemed to come out of nowhere—it was announced with a link to Oscar Parsons’s twitter account whereby he supplied his email address and by writing to him, fans could procure a copy (limited to 300) for a … Continue reading
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Marijn van Kreij and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Go Folks Go, Catalog & Flexi 7”, 2016
Boy has it been awhile since I wrote about Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, and I’m glad this art book thing came along to inspire me to write it up. Maybe soon I’ll get back into writing up everything else from 2016. … Continue reading
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F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm, Music For Wobbling Music Versus Gravity, 2013
Sonic Pieces label. Ambient style: instrumental, experimental, contemporary neo-classical folk. In additional to all the other instruments, on this recording we hear crumpled paper, rolling metal balls on ply-wood, a ping-pong ball in a wok, and a turning tin-toy carousel. … Continue reading
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F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm, Music For Lovers Music Versus Time, 2010
Sonic Pieces label. Ambient style: instrumental, experimental, neo-classical, contemporary, folk. This record is very experimental, and extremely difficult to describe. Besides the mainstays of piano and guitar as per Frahm and Blumm, prominently featured on a number of tracks are … Continue reading
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Jasmine Guffond, Yellow Bell, 2015
Sonic Pieces label Ambient style: drone, experimental. I would call this a ‘pretty’ drone album in that it’s restless and shifting, ‘experimental’ in the sense that the artist is constantly trying new things, not content to just let her tones … Continue reading
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Dictaphone, Poems From A Rooftop, 2012
Sonic Pieces label. Ambient style: Modern classical, instrumental – violin, guitar, sax, clarinet, bass. This is way more ‘modern classical’ than ambient, but it is absolutely gorgeous and quietly melodic, making clean, though minimalist use of woodwind, violin, drums and … Continue reading
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Midori Hirano, Minor Planet, 2016
Sonic Pieces label. Ambient style: modern classical, piano, hiss, presence, noise, static, synth, field recording. My general impression was one of the artist, a piano player, using her instrument as a means of astral travelling. The piano blurs into indistinct … Continue reading
Homesick Hank feat. Mary Gauthier/Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Believe/Leave It Behind 7″, 2015
Homesick Hank are described on Discogs as a “Danish Americana Band” and they certainly have it down pat, because they do sound more American than Danish, though on their website you’ll find the descriptor “Nordicana” being used to describe their … Continue reading
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Will Oldham/Don Lennon, Caveh Says/Song For Caveh, DVD Boxset & 7”, 2015
The A-side to this 7” is Oldham’s, a song which plays out at the end of the thirty minute film Tripping With Caveh in which Oldham and Caveh head out to a lodge in the country with a small film … Continue reading
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Charles Burns & Killoffer with Will Oldham, In The Garden Of Evil, Book & flexi 7″, 2015
This is at least the third book & music project Oldham’s been involved among his numerous collaborations, the first being Forest Time with photographer Erik Wesselo from 2002, then another in 2012 with artist Ashley Macomber called Afternoon. For his song “Garden of … Continue reading
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Palace, Mountain 12″, 1995
This EP was released in the UK in order to bring together the four tracks from the “West Palm Beach/Gulf Shores” 7″ (1994) and the “The Mountain Low/(End of) Travelling” 7″ from earlier in 1995. Oldham has said that he sees 7” … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & The Cairo Gang, Tip The Glass And Feel The Bottom 10”, 2015
Another limited edition release of only 300 copies (like the “Sixty Minute Man” and Will Oldham on Bonnie Prince Billy 10″ releases), this time from the small label, Future Oak Recordings, who tell us that this EP “was recorded by Oldham … Continue reading
Trembling Bells featuring Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, The Marble Downs LP, 2012
From their Bandcamp page we learn that Trembling Bells “are Alex Neilson’s song-based group who seek to reanimate the psychic landscapes of Great Britain and relocate them to some vague, mythic land where basic human crises are encountered and conquered.” … Continue reading
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Bonnie Prince Billy, On Raglan Road 7″, 2015
This came out of the blue, both literally and metaphorically (half the 500 pressings are blue vinyl) and seems not to have been distributed by any record label at all, but hand-distributed through record shops. Why these songs? Why now? … Continue reading
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Bonnie Stillwatter, The Devil Is People 12”, 2015
This would be the second brewery-related release Oldham’s been associated with in recent times. The previous one was a 10” single released in March 2013, which had the Bonnie Prince covering a doo-wop number from the sixties called “Sixty Minute Man” … Continue reading
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Bonnie Prince Billy/Broeder Dieleman, Gloria/Drie Vragen split 7”, 2015
Released in concord with Record Store Day 2015, this 7” sees Oldham recording a song written by Tonnie “broeder” Dieleman on one side, Tonnie being Dieleman’s first name, and “broeder” meaning “brother.” Meanwhile Brah Dieleman performs a Bonnie Prince Billy … Continue reading
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Bonnie Prince Billy, Mindlessness/Blindlessness 7”, 2015
This single doesn’t represent a whole lot of value for money for fans given that the A-side appears as it is on the Sailor’s Grave album. Means you’re paying seven bucks for a single song, though I suppose in fairness, it was … Continue reading
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Alexis Taylor and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Am I Not A Weaker Soldier? 7″, 2014
This final Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy 7” for 2014 has Oldham performing a song by Alexis Taylor (of the English band Hot Chip) on the A-side while Taylor plays a Palace song from the Arise Therefore album on the B-side. Back … Continue reading
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Doug Paisley feat. Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Until I Find You 7″, 2014
I didn’t think I’d heard of Doug Paisley until I found out about this release—for that matter I hadn’t heard of quite a few artists, some country, some singer-songwriter, until Oldham introduced them to me via some of his 7” … Continue reading
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Bonnie Prince Billy, New Black Rich (Tusks)/Black As Grace 7”, 2014
After the “Quail And Dumplings” 7″ a month or three back, here’s the second single to be released in support of Sailor’s Grave – A Sea Of Tongues. “New Black Rich” was the only new song on that album. Even then, strangely, … Continue reading
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Bonnie Prince Billy, Quail And Dumplings/Pull Your Eyes Out, Molly 7”, 2014
Seems funny – “Quail and Dumplings” was originally released as the first single off Wolfroy Goes To Town in mp3 and CD format. Three years later this new version is released on vinyl in support of 2014’s Wolfroy redux, Sailor’s … Continue reading
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Trembling Bells with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Muldoon’s Picnic, The Duchess EP, 2012
One of Trembling Bells chief members and/or songwriters is Alex Neilson who Oldham has a longstanding friendship with and who played with him together on the live album Is It The Sea? in 2009. The following year, 2010, Oldham added his … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & The Cairo Gang, We Love Our Hole 7”, 2014
Seems that Will Oldham got together with guitar slinger pals Emmett Kelly and crew (Wonder Show of the World, 2010) to record a couple of songs for the soundtrack to the surf-flick-homage-flick Spirit of Akasha. I’ve not seen it and … Continue reading
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Trembling Bells with Bonnie Prince Billy, New Trip On The Old Wine 7”, 2014
The Record Store Day BPB release for 2014 was this slightly pointless 7” single which one assumes contains cast-offs from a couple of years earlier when Oldham worked with Trembling Bells on The Duchess EP and The Marble Downs album. I say pointless … Continue reading
Contact Field Orchestra, Vol. 1, 2013
So I recently discovered Sly Vinyl, a website dedicated to pulling together, from labels around the world, information about limited release runs of vinyl albums. The first thing I discovered late January 2014 was this album by the “Contact Field … Continue reading
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Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Christmas Eve Can Kill You 7”, 2012
This is a welcome return from one of Oldham’s best female collaborators (in terms of voice-blend) if not the best, Dawn McCarthy, she of the beautifully frosty-soft voice, here performing two Everly Brothers songs, a precursor to the soon-to-be-released album … Continue reading
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Oxes ft. Will Oldham / Microkingdom, Strong Enough/I’m On Fire split 7”, 2012
This is a limited edition 7” of … I dunno, 500 copies apparently, though mine is hand numbered 149/1000. This is a first time introduction to both Oxes and Microkingdom for me. Oxes are an instrumental rock band from Maryland. Seems … Continue reading
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Billy F Gibbons / Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Oh Well/Storms split 7”, 2012
Yay to Dragcity for releasing this as a single for Bonnie fans who didn’t want to buy A Tribute To Fleetwood Mac earlier in 2012 just to own “Storms” on a physical format. “Storms” comes from Tusk, that great Fleetwood … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Mariee Sioux, Bonnie & Mariee 2 x 7″, 2012
The title of this double 7″ might be lost on anyone born in the last 20 years, but it refers jokingly to “Donny & Marie,” that brother/sister pair of Osmonds who sang soppy love songs to God in the 70s. … Continue reading
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Bonnie Prince Billy, The b-sides for Time To Be Clear 7”, 2012
I think the single itself, “Time To Be Clear” from Wolfroy Goes To Town was released as an itunes only single, or at least as a digital file, and here we get the b-sides exclusively for 7″. For some reason … Continue reading
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Bonnie Prince Billy, Wolfroy Goes To Town, 2011
Wolfroy Goes To Town is the slowest growing of Bonnie Prince Billy (note the disappearance of the inverted apostrophes) albums in his annual run since 1999. I’ve given it a fair few whirls and it really took a long time for … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Haggard Harper Bonnie 7”, 2011
In which Will Oldham asserts himself as country and folk crooning interpreter extraordinaire, adding two more folk or country covers to his collection of 7” releases—his John Martyn, his David Allen Coe, his John Prine, his Graham Nash, his Larry … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & The Phantom Family Halo, The Mindeater 10”, 2011
I’d like to begin this commentary with the statement that this is one of the best pieces of vinyl released in 2011 with Oldham’s name attached. I dig all four of these songs; while they’re hardly pop, they all have … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, There Is No God/God Is Love 10”, 2011
After two collaborative 10” singles in 2011, the first with The Cairo Gang, the second with Matt Sweeney, this time we have one simply by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, though Emmett Kelly of The Cairo Gang plays guitar here, and, well, … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Matt Sweeney, Must Be Blind b/w Life In Muscle 10”, 2011
The second 10″ single for 2011, this time a return to working with Matt Sweeney of the Superwolf project, though while Sweeney’s guitar sound is recognisable, these songs seem more traditionally structured than those earlier efforts. Both are short at … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & The Cairo Gang, Island Brothers/New Wonder 10”, 2011
2011 seems to have been the advent of the 10” single in Oldham’s world. They would appear with decreasing frequency from here on in: four in 2011, three in 2012 and one more in 2013. Perhaps the songs were getting … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy / Robin Pecknold, Simple Man/Be Yourself split 7”, 2010
These songs were recorded by a small label called Grass Roots for a tribute album to Graham Nash released in 2010 called Be Yourself: Tribute to Graham Nash’s ‘Songs For Beginners’, thus both songs can be found on that Nash album … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Trembling Bells, New Year’s Eve’s The Loneliest Night Of The Year 7”, 201
Trembling Bells is the vehicle of main woman Lavinia Blackwall along with Alex Neilson, an old friend of Oldham’s, someone who he’d already collaborated with on his live album Is It The Sea? Trembling Bells are a multi-instrument folk rock band … Continue reading
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy / The Black Swans, Sing Larry Jon Wilson split 7″, 2010
Back in 1997 Will Oldham released a split single (with Rising Shotgun) of songs by ‘country outlaw’ artist David Allen Coe. Larry Jon Wilson might be considered another of these ‘country outlaw’ artists who eschewed commercialism in favour of staying … Continue reading
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang, Midday/You Win 7″, 2010
Rather than make The Wonder Show Of The World a 12 song album, it seems the strategy was to hack off the two songs that fit the least into that collection and release them as a separate 7”. The first, … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & The Cairo Gang, The Wonder Show Of The World, 2010
After the inward-looking Beware with its odd mix of comedy, philosophical meandering and identity-developing in a dark room to a country tune of pedal steel guitars, guimbris, marimbas, mandolins, flutes, saxes, banjos, cornets and accordions, we now get back to … Continue reading
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Beware, 2009
Beware was probably the first Bonnie album I knew I was going to like after only one listen. The cadences and nuances of his voice and song were now firmly etched in my mind, patterns and recognitions and blueprints; perhaps … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, (self-titled), 2013
So Oldham’s tried on a new system of distribution for this album, his first to feature only himself and guitar since 1994’s Days In The Wake. We get this image of a humble relatively unknown singer-songwriter humping his swag of … Continue reading
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The Marquis de Tren and Bonny Billy, Solemns EP, 2013
This would be the second Marquis/Bonny collaboration between Will Oldham and Mick Turner (of the Dirty Three), the first being the Get On Jolly EP released in 2000. There’s a neat yellow flyer that comes with the record giving a … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Sixty Minute Man/Sixty-one 10”, 2013
Ah, I’d planned to work through Oldham’s discography in chronological order but I think a little timeliness in getting copy out would be good, especially for these hard-to-obtain items that the Bonnie-fan exploitation machine keeps churning out every few months. … Continue reading
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Cheyenne Mize and Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Among The Gold, 2009
This is an interesting project. These songs are old, like very old, dating back as far as 1873. The most ‘recent’ one is from 1915. There’s a neat narrative arc running through these songs with the first five mentioning “dreaming” … Continue reading
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Bonny Billy & The Picket Line, Funtown Comedown, 2009
This is the third official Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy live album to be released on vinyl, fourth if you include the CD-only Wilding In The West from 2008. I found Summer In The Southeast virtually unlistenable, Is It The Sea? was … Continue reading
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Soulsavers feat. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Sunrise/You Will Miss Me When I Burn 7”, 2009
Strictly speaking this is not a Will Oldham release—it’s produced by a British outfit known as Soulsavers, an “electronic-rock-gospel duo” according to Discogs. Oldham guest-sings on the A-side and Mark Lanegan on the B-side, “You Will Miss Me When I … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Stay 7″, 2009
Oldham had already collaborated with Susanna Wallumrod earlier in 2009 on their 7” single “Forever And Ever,” doing two cover songs. On this cast-off, Oldham covers two Susanna songs from her album Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos. We’ve got several musicians … Continue reading
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Young Widows / Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Poor Shelter split 7″, 2009
This was released by Temporary Residence in 2009 as the first in a series of four ‘split’ seven inch singles all featuring Young Widows on the A-side. Who they? A noise trio from Louisville, home also to the subject of … Continue reading
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Susanna and Bonny Billy Sing, Forever And Ever 7″, 2009
Susanna is none other than Susanna Wallumrod, a Norwegian singer born in 1979. I’d never heard of her until I came across this record, and I haven’t found any information on how it came about. There’s no label, and it … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Chijimi 10”, 2009
It’s in Will Oldham On Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy that Oldham says this Chijimi record is one of his favourites because of the simplicity of the recording process. Just himself, Emmett Kelly and Cheyenne Mize in a room in his house. … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy with Harem Scarem and Alex Neilson, Is It The Sea? 2008
This is a double live album from a concert in Edinburgh recorded by the BBC and released on heavy duty vinyl. The sound quality is of a very high standard, the drums for example, can be heard in the finest … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Ask Forgiveness, 2007
I’d had this on my ipod for a couple of years before I got round to playing my vinyl copy, and it was really only during a hiking trip through Switzerland in 2011 that I got fully absorbed in Ask … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Notes For Future Lovers 7″, 2008
This is a rather obscure release limited to 500 copies and released on translucent blue vinyl. The lyrics are taken from poems by John Harmon, a jazz musician from Wisconsin, who plays keyboards. He seems to have been involved in … Continue reading
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Strange Form Of Life 12″, 2007
This is the fourth single to be released from The Letting Go album. Okay, I’ve already written about this song twice—once in my album review and once for the live version on the B-side to the “Bonny 2007” tour release … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Bonny 2007 – John the Baptist 7″, 2007
This 7” contains two tracks recorded live in October 2007 at a concert in California. The A-side is a melding of two separate “John The Baptist” songs, one written by E.C. Ball (1913-1978) an American singer-songwriter, who played country gospel … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, The Letting Go, 2006
I have a sorry history with this album. I bought it in the year of release and despite being aware of all the great reviews, I never seemed to understand what people were raving about. I wasn’t really listening, and … Continue reading
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Tortoise and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, The Brave And The Bold, 2006
So the first album post-Superwolf that I buy, after deciding Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy was the best thing since blue cheese, was this hard-to-love album of covers performed with Chicago ‘post-rock’ outfit Tortoise, a band whose albums I own none of. … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Lay & Love 12”, 2007
Here we have the third single in support of The Letting Go. Seems kind of odd that Oldham rarely releases promo singles and then suddenly four for one album. But they come with a plethora of B-sides so it kinda … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Cold & Wet 12″, 2006
This is the second single from The Letting Go album. Here we’ve got one album track plus two live songs with what seems to be the same band Oldham toured with for the Summer In The Southeast LP. The lead … Continue reading
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Bob Dylan, Tempest, 2012
Tempest is Dylan’s 35thth studio album as they say, and what a beauty. The thrill is in hearing such a cross-sectional hodgepodgian mishmash of eclectic ways to say ‘Dylanesque pastiche.’ Like the surface of the earth, he’s all over the place—congo … Continue reading
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Summer In The Southeast, 2005
For me, this is the least likable of Oldham’s three live albums of the noughties. In fact, it’s the least likable Oldham album full stop. The mix isn’t great, although it’s a good opportunity to hear the full electric Bonnie … Continue reading
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Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Superwolf, 2005
I walked into Kichijoji’s Disc Union in 2005, the week Superwolf was released, and without knowing anything about it, but not quite being the Bonnie fan I was about to become, bought it on a whim. I went home and … Continue reading
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May Your Song Always Be Sung: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 3, Various Artists, 2003
I’ve just made my biggest jump forward on this Dylan covers-on-vinyl project. Ten whole years on from 1993’s 30th Anniversary Concert, to 2003, and what a huge difference in sound quality. Okay, so it’s a German produced recording, practically audiophile … Continue reading
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Songs For The Young At Heart, Puff The Magic Dragon 7″, 2005
In 2005 Stuart Staples and David Boulter decided to get together and produce an album of updated versions of children’s songs. Boulter had just had a son and wanted to play him classic kids’ music which he felt was on … Continue reading
Bonny/Sweeney, I Gave You b/w Four Screams 7″, 2005
This is the only single released to promote the brilliant Superwolf album. Three facts which suggest that it wasn’t much of a promotional move, however: (1) “I Gave You” is a great song but it’s not the album’s best; (2) … Continue reading
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Sings Greatest Palace Music, 2004
According to Oldham, after working with Marty Slayton on Master And Everyone and realizing how it easy it was to work with professional studio musicians, he decided he’d head down to Nashville and make this album, which doesn’t sound like … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, No More Workhorse Blues b/w The Color Of My Dreams 7″, 2004
Here we have the second single in support of Sings Greatest Palace Music. I could add a note here about how much I’ve been enjoying these new versions since I got to know all of the songs through the Palace … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Agnes, Queen Of Sorrow b/w Blokbuster 7″, 2004
This was the first single in support of Sings Greatest Palace Music, the album Oldham recorded using Nashville session musicians to revive his old Palace material. I remember there was a lot of hand wringing in the music press over … Continue reading
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Will Oldham, Seafarers Music, 2004
Seafarers was a documentary made by Jason Massot which “followed four different merchant-marine guys from four different countries who were all in the port of Rotterdam … one of the biggest commercial seaports in the world” (Oldham). These men, a … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Master And Everyone, 2003
This was the first Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy album I purchased, after enjoying a copy of Ease Down The Road that a friend made for me in 2002. I must have bought it in Japan because my CD copy came with … Continue reading
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The Continental OP, Slitch Music 12″, 2002
This is another soundtrack, recorded by Will Oldham and David Pajo—they’d worked together many times before during the Palace years. Pajo’s claim to fame is Slint and Papa M, but he’s had bit parts in too many other bands to … Continue reading
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Amalgamated Sons Of Rest, Amalgamated Sons Of Rest 12″ EP, 2002
The Amalgamated Sons of Rest is a one-off project consisting of Jason Molina (from Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co.), Will Oldham, and Alasdair Roberts (of Appendix Out). The contents herein were recorded in September of 2001. Oldham sings lead … Continue reading
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Bonny Billy / Rainywood, Brother Warrior b/w Cornflower Blue, split 7”, 2002
These two songs are both Kate Wolf covers. Who’s Kate Wolf? You might well ask unless you’re well versed in American country/folk/singer-songwriters of the 70s and 80s, which I’m obviously not, because I’d never heard of her until five minutes … Continue reading
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Will Oldham and Erik Wesselo, Forest Time, Book & 10″, 2002
This is a single song 10” released in the Netherlands; tis an art collaboration with Erik Wesselo, a photographer who provides the 12 photos that appear in the booklet (samples below). Apparently 5000 copies were produced worldwide so it’s not … Continue reading
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Ease Down The Road, 2001
Ease Down The Road, while perfectly enjoyable, has always been my least favourite Will Oldham album, while also being my first. A friend made me a copy on MD back in 2002. Listening to it closely in preparation for this … Continue reading
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The Marquis de Tren and Bonny Billy, Get On Jolly EP, 2000
I’ve just read two reviews of this EP on the internet – the only two I could find after a very quick search – and neither reviewer seemed to realize that the lyrics to Get On Jolly are taken from a … Continue reading
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Rian Murphy & Will Oldham, All Most Heaven EP, 2000
The title itself is language play – shoving ‘all’ in front of ‘most’ is generally considered bad grammar – but that’s nothing once you hear the lyrics. Oldham seems to invent his own language for this collection of songs, which … Continue reading
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Bonnie “Blue” Billy, Little Boy Blue I & II b/w Blue Boy 7″, 2000
These three songs are all covers written some time in the past seventy years by American songwriters, two of whom were born in 1920 Tennessee. I guess Oldham chose them because the song titles are all nearly the same. In … Continue reading
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Will Oldham, Guarapero: Lost Blues 2, 2000
‘Guarapero’ is a colloquial term for “a person who drinks a lot or knows how to drink,” but a ‘guarapero’ can also mean one who makes ‘guarapo’ – an iced drink popular in South America. Guarapero picks up not only … Continue reading
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