Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy is wonderful.
His album The letting go is to be encouraged in any potential life partner's CD collection. It just makes sense. The songwriting is interesting, varied and engaging, and Dawn McCarthy's harmonies are glorious.
Yes it may be an introspective musing on death and loss, but life ain't all disco and rock festivals, you know.
The usual obsession rule would be enforced, obviously. Will Oldham's excursions into acting, lauded or otherwise, have no bearing on Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.
I wonder if there should be a depression equation though?
Most of the Drag City record label is fine by me as far as all that goes too. It is not merely the preserve of bearded bohemians who drink only elm tea, and if elm tea is your major vice you could make a worse partner anyway.
There's an interesting Jim O'Rourke connection to many of the artists too, which I don't think is a bad thing.
His album The letting go is to be encouraged in any potential life partner's CD collection. It just makes sense. The songwriting is interesting, varied and engaging, and Dawn McCarthy's harmonies are glorious.
Yes it may be an introspective musing on death and loss, but life ain't all disco and rock festivals, you know.
The usual obsession rule would be enforced, obviously. Will Oldham's excursions into acting, lauded or otherwise, have no bearing on Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.
I wonder if there should be a depression equation though?
Most of the Drag City record label is fine by me as far as all that goes too. It is not merely the preserve of bearded bohemians who drink only elm tea, and if elm tea is your major vice you could make a worse partner anyway.
There's an interesting Jim O'Rourke connection to many of the artists too, which I don't think is a bad thing.
Labels: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Dawn McCarthy, Drag City, Jim O'Rourke, Will Oldham, wonderful
posted by peter at
4:31 PM
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I feel, personally, that Will Oldham, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Palace Brothers should be limited to one album maximum. Apart from you, Peter, most people who like his music are either members of Mogwai, people with mental health issues - not that there's anything wrong with that but one would hope that a partner would have worked through their depression/anger/co-dependence, or people with a propensity to dress like those who would spend days outside of shopping centres dressed in decaying tweed and shouting obscenities at mothers to be. The rest are bohemians, and as such are to be assessed on a case by case base. I wouldn't want to see more than three of his albums at all. That would just be too brooding and intense. I'm sure much the same could be said of Nick Cave as well.
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