Tag Archives: The Cairo Gang

Marijn van Kreij and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Go Folks Go, Catalog & Flexi 7”, 2016

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Alan Bumstead Vinyl Reviews

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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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & The Cairo Gang, Tip The Glass And Feel The Bottom 10”, 2015  

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Alan Bumstead Vinyl Reviews

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 →

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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & The Cairo Gang, We Love Our Hole 7”, 2014  

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Alan Bumstead Vinyl Reviews

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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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & The Cairo Gang, Island Brothers/New Wonder 10”, 2011

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Alan Bumstead Vinyl Reviews

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 & The Cairo Gang, Midday/You Win 7″, 2010

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Alan Bumstead Vinyl Reviews

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

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Alan Bumstead Vinyl Reviews

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 →

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