Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy pays tribute to Merle Haggard on ‘Best Troubador’, a timely reminder of the talents one of the most gifted of all the great American songwriters, delivered with grace and skill by a modern master.
Drag City share further Palace videos including Horses which stars a very young Will Oldham and a stop-animation for ‘Come In’. Both songs feature on Lost Blues and Other Songs which is available as a double LP, CD and Digital via Drag City.
Drag City Records reveal official music video for the Palace Brothers debut single ‘Ohio River Boat Song.’ We dig up some trivia about the single first released in ’93 which is also an adaptation of the traditional Scottish Loch Tay Boat Song.
For the first time, Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Nathan Salsburg are to release a collaborative EP for Record Store Day via Paradise of Bachelors from which we take our Song of the Day: Wallins Creek Girls.
The music within the live recorded ‘The Bonnie Bells of Oxford’ is great, as is the sense of atmosphere, the live chemistry and total involvement of all concerned. It’s a compelling and exciting audio document with a desirable “wish I’d been there” vibe.
Listen to the new single by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy from the new Refugee charity album which also features Linda Thompson, Alasdair Roberts, Piers Facini, Jenny Lysander, Rick Redbeard, Rachel Sermanni, Dana Falconberry, Newcastle maverick Richard Dawson and more.
An interesting addition to the oeuvres of both Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and the Bitchin Bajas as their respective muses find common ground in this adventurous and intriguing release.
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy reveals his latest cosmic offering with the Bitchin Bajas: Your Hard Work is About to Pay Off. Keep On Keeping On. Watch the new video here.
Photographs of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy often show him squinting in the light of a real or imagined sun, his brow shiny with the sweat of the boozer, the fervent preacher, the madman or the honest labourer….on this timely collection we are offered new and tantalising views of them all.
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy announces new album ‘Pond Scum’ – tracks chosen from John Peel Sessions spanning eight years. Plus a free download of ‘Rich Wife Full of Happiness’.
We have a video premiere today from Joan Shelley featuring Will Oldham, it was filmed recently at The Bomhard Theater in Louisville, Kentucky. She’s over in the UK touring in March ’16.
