bonnie prince billy - 'you're doomed'

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There's always time for a Will Oldham song on a Sunday.

bonnie prince billy - 'blindlessness'

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"I can't see what I'm doing, it's like a dog is standing on my face". What an opening line to a song! The video to this new track by BPB also features a small dog but fortunately there's no face-sitting going on here.

bonnie prince billy - 'ain't you wealthy, ain't you wise'

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From the 'Master and Everyone' album of a few years back.

brothers in arms

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I'm not a huge fan of the Everly Brothers, for me their music was just a pale shadow of what Buddy Holly wrote and performed. It never moved me, I found it passe and it doesn't date well.  I am however, a big fan of Bonnie Prince Billy and he likes the Everly's a lot. I read recently an article in Mojo magazine where he practically gushed with praise for them. I discovered a great little video about the making of a tribute album where Billy works with Dawn McCarthy. I think it's a nice treat to see how these albums are worked out in the recording studios and musicians' homes and you get to see another more candid side to the artists. 

As an aside, I have long maintained that Bonnie Prince Billy could make a career out of playing frontier town doctors in edgy Hollywood westerns. He's got the right shape head and beard. Someone should tell him.

will oldham - '64 (john peel sessions)'

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Incorrectly introduced on the Peel show as 'Jolly Five' this is from August 2002 and is as bleak as it is beautiful. It pretty much describes a very large part of Oldham's songs and I say that with no intent to denigrate anything that Oldham has done. He's a genius.

it's all for charity

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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (aka Will Oldham) is releasing a charity single "There Is No God" with all of the proceeds going to "Save Our Gulf" a charity set up to rescue and care for wildlife affected by the BP oil disaster. Playing with Oldham are Emmett Kelly, Ben Hall, Pete Cummings, Peter Townsend, Billy Contreras, Cassie Berman and Rachel Korine. The single will be released on 21 June.

More information here. The song is quite silly, he's quite lovely and it's all for a great cause.