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Directed by Jacob Forman, watch the video for Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s “Willow, Pine and Oak” – “When first proposing the video to me, Will posed it as a challenge of sorts— to stray from my typical home of the handheld camera and attempt to capture that same sort of intimacy with a tripod. To ‘lock it down,’ in his words…”

While ‘Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You’ is recognisably a Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy album, it is also a slight departure. These songs have a life-affirming quality, a willingness to exist in the present, and as a result, this is one of Will Oldham’s most rewarding albums.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy announces his new album ‘Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You’ and shares lead single & video ‘Bananas’ – Bonny’s call-n-response with Dane Waters passes the love around until flowers bloom forth from the desert…

On 21st April, Shorty’s Ark, the debut picture book from Will Oldham and illustrator Lori Damiano will be published via Drag City. The book is based on the song by Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney – watch them performing the song live.

Taken from their Superwolves album, Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy share their video for ‘Resist the Urge’ made by legendary skateboarder Kevin “Spanky” Long and photographer/skateboarder Atiba Jefferson.

Last year Dylan sang, “I contain multitudes” quoting Whitman, a sentiment this sophomore tour de force boldly epitomizes. Equal parts glamorous and grotesque, Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s Superwolves is a sprawling, bewildering frenzy of ideas and emotions, leaving the listener with plenty to unpick.

Taken from his latest album, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy shares video for his latest single “This is Far From Over” featuring longtime Bonny co-conspirator Olivia Owens Wyatt on her solo transpacific crossing aboard a 34-ft sailboat.

On Songs of Love and Horror Will Oldham’s enigmatic aliases hand back control for an unadorned set of tenderly sung, troubled songs that tap the darkness as only Oldham can.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy shares video for new song Blueberry Jam – a jammer, a fruit-filled jammer to end all fruit-filled endeavours. How can you not smile at the madness of it all?

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.

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.