Will Oldham

Bonnie "Prince" Billy, "Death to Everyone" MP3 Bonnie "Prince" Billy, better known-or, at least, also known-as Will Oldham is soon releasing a bluegrass album on his longtime label Drag City. "Death to Everyone," is not on Funtown Comedown,...

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As you know by now, we at NPR Music sent out a series of questions to people in the music, arts and entertainment communities. We wanted to get a sense of people's thoughts and feelings pertaining to the last decade in music, and what their...

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...not dissimilar, singing in octaves other artists would never dare attempt. Citing his influences as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Will Oldham and Jeff Buckley, it's easy to see where the inspiration has come from in tracks like 'Plough' and...

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...November 10th, 2009 It hasn't been especially relevant for a decade, but way back when, you might have introduced Jason Molina as a Will Oldham protege. Over the years he's made his best work collaborating with established songwriters (Arab...

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...to 28 discs. Or consider Beneath Waves, his excellent K debut in 2006: Opener "Crashing Waves" is a would-be folk-rock anthem for Bonnie "Prince" Billy fans, and "Shadow" feels like Bill Callahan mocking Lou Reed. But with syncopation that...

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...in a tremendously satisfying way. He out-and-out croons, for instance, on "Out of Bed," stretching his voice in a way that, say, Bonnie "Prince" Billy would never dare to risk. And Wilson writes some straight-up romantic duets, too;...

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...movie Matewan used to play over and over on IFC about ten years ago. Rumor later had it, and credits proved, that Will Oldham, aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy, had a small role in the film. We never made it far enough through the harsh movie...

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...more than 70 titles, I feel like can't really hear it all. That's tantalizing and, in some way, feeds Oldham's mystique. To stumble onto Oldham today is to find numerous Web sites with information about his music, but not him. His...

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Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Live Last Night It's not that Will Oldham is a scary looking dude. He's just an odd looking fellow. He has the face and, especially, beard of someone whose portrait would have been painted on a battlefield somewhere in...

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The anti-folk singer Jeffrey Lewis has a song about a hallucinatory meeting with Oldham on the New York subway (it's called "Williamsburg Will Oldham Massacre" and the video on YouTube can't be recommended highly enough). But what...

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