Bonnie Prince Billy new album -- "Beware" -- on tour now, going next to see him next thursday, Jim White drumming, yeah this'll be dope fuckin a

i am also a bpb stan 4-lyfe, how did this happen

also where you get that vinyl? i just got my turntable working and want it

got mine at roadrunner, but most of the indie places should have it i think.

Am I right in thinking this is a lot more maximal than his previous work?

gbx, you and i can just stand outside the show and weep i guess.

srsly that is what i'm planning on doing.

dear ilx plz halp!

Am I right in thinking this is a lot more maximal than his previous work?

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kind of? it's pretty lush in comparison to what most ppl think is typical for him...lots of pedal steel, cornet, back vocals, violin, even some extended jethro tull cum herbie mann flute action on the last song. the arrangements are really nice on this.

but i don't know if it's as busy as the brave and the bold or that baroque pop EP he did with rian murphy or the mainstream country greatest hits thing..

think i'm gonna go pick this up today. i haven't even fully processed the last one although i did enjoy it the couple times i listened to it.

yeah, think i'm gonna head out and get this

Caught the show in Des Moines a couple nights ago. Band was on point. White's drumming esp. Loong, minor key "Drunk at the Pulpit" w/free improv style bass and fiddle was choice.

SHUT UP

Am I right in thinking this is a lot more maximal than his previous work?

Kinda glad to hear this tbh. Ease Down the Road is my fave bpb so far, and is the poppiest so I guess I approve of the more is more approach. Enough with the stripped-down thing, y'know?

It's definitely got a live feel to it - live with a very big country band. I guess the only thing I miss is the prominent female backing vocals he's had on the last two albums, but really there's nothing to complain about with this one. One of his best I'd say.

reviews have been really split...or actually not totally split but on metacritic there were a couple REALLY negative ones which surprised me

Hmmm... glanced over a couple of those negative reviews and it seems like the classic case of folks wanting the starker/minimal BPB of "I See a Darkness." I mean calling this stuff disingenuous - which is what a couple of those reviews seem to be saying - seems like bullshit. It's not like he just jumped right into country with this album. Feels like a natural progression from the last one.

yeah i agree.

i get that sense all the time, when a lot of people make comments about him, basically i think "i see a darkness" sort of defines him in a lot of people's views and they haven't really followed anything else he's done since then....

i kinda love maximalist BPB, is the thing

even though i love 'darkness' and 'master and everyone' i probably listen to summer in the southeast more often

i get that sense all the time, when a lot of people make comments about him, basically i think "i see a darkness" sort of defines him in a lot of people's views and they haven't really followed anything else he's done since then....

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this is kind of how i am. i didn't get into dude until i see a darkness and i've given most of his albums since then and some of his albums before then a chance but can't connect to any of them for whatever reason. i still haven't heard superwolf though, despite being a mega chavez fan

superwolf is the bomb IMO

truth

by the way this is "super-wolf" apparently:

superwolf is the bomb IMO

YOOTM

tonight! listening to "the letting go" right now....last nite's show he did "strange form of life" which would be sweet.

still so pissed

tho i did just get beware at electric fetus and will listen to it this afternoon w/beers now that i am officially on vacation :D

gbx i might have a lead for you....gimme a minute

superwolf is a great great album, and as an alltime chavez stan i am proud to report that matt sweeney is a huge part of why it's so good.

!!!!!!!

waiting to hear back from a PM, dude on another board had one available earlier today

in silent sad protest to my inability to remember to get my shit together for this show, i am seeing Alestorm and Tyr at Station 4.

matt that would be dope, thanks for even looking!

there's like a billion postings on CL, tho, so i understand that these things are moving pretty quckly

sorry man, was already gone :(

didn't mean to tease u

nah, it's ok. like i said, they're in short supply and it's a seller's market

i'm just hoping my friend's brother has a very temporary illness

i'm guessing walker art shows are sort of out of the range of good old fashioned scalpers too.

i'm thinking about milling around the front door, tho, for realz

so first impression--this is indeed very maximal and i'm not really sure it's a good thing.

thanks to gbx my evening just got 1 billion times more awesome!

m@tt are you going to the late show or early show?

HIGH FIVES 4 EVERYONE

AWESOMES!

CU THER

I still say (like with Lay Down in the Light) it's very Grateful Dead (which is a good thing).

holy shit dude. that was incredible.

http://chethondo.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/fistpound.jpg

Has anyone heard this bonus 10" thing? It's rather expensive. Is it worth the $20 for the four extra non-LP tracks or is this just fan-baiting?

I meant 'nerd-baiting.'

I dreamed last night that there was a Bonnie Prince Billy concert outside of Mono (in Glasgow) with Mogwai in support and that I had a ticket but didn't go then hated myself for it.

DUDES WOW.

I went to the late show....He did "World's Greatest" by R Kelly, a super slow version of "I See A Darkness" and a fucking terrifying crazy ass 16 Horsepower/Bad Seeds version of "Drunk at the Pulpit"...

few off the new album, some goods off the letting go, couple master and everyone...

Jim White is maybe my favorite musician to watch play in the whole world.

yeah i fucking love jim white. i've only got to see him w/ the dirty 3 tho

Beware has really grown on me, my favorite release of 09 so far.

I know this isn't Craigslist or anything, but does anyone happen to have an extra ticket to his show at the Southbank Centre this Monday?

LOL

"Michael J. Fox"

lol

newsguy bopping around at the end is so awkward/great

So awesome!

Saw him last night in Amsterdam, and it was a really great show. The setlist was carefully constructed it seemed, with several parts with songs that are in the same vein (i.e. slow/melancholy, jangly country, rocking out). In almost all songs he was joined on vocals by the woman who also sings on the last records (I forgot her name), and their voices just 'click' so good, they really sound great together. Add all that a great sound, and I had a splendid evening, very fullfilling. It was raw, fun at times, and moving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na6gejkTtZE&feature=related

love this a lot at the moment

very late here, but that kansas city morning news segment was magical. compelling interpersonal dynamics are always guaranteed on these local FOX drive-time things where the interviewer obviously wants nothing more than to hop in their lexus and get the hell home but they're tortured by having to withstand a few more minutes patronizing some drug-addled fruitcake.

"another centimetre probably"

This sounds like it was rad:

http://www.ssgmusic.com/live-review-bonnie-prince-billy-at-wolf-haven-international/

I saw him play an in-store yesterday, took lots of requests, including mine ("For the Mekons et al"). Apparently there were plans for Ralph Stanley and Emmylou Harris to cover "Lay and Love" that never came to fruition.