If you have a link, I'd gladly take this off your hands! (I've currently got no access to any Will Oldham stuff because life.)
I'd have to include A Minor Place. It's saved me too many times. And, probably, Raining in Darling. And Careless Love.
Also: it dawned on me recently that A Minor Place is like the underside of Everyday People - you can practically play the two simultaneously.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 18 May 2017 08:22 (six years ago) link
Currently pondering whether to drunkenly order "Wai Notes" or "Wolfroy Goes To Town" ...
― djh, Monday, 22 May 2017 21:42 (six years ago) link
Wai notes is pretty unearthly. I love The Letting Go but if you have that album, it's possibly not essential. Not sure about Wolfroy.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 01:41 (six years ago) link
i guess i bought this when it came out but really only came around to it about 2-3 years ago.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link
Did anyone hear the self-titled from a couple years ago?
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 02:21 (six years ago) link
the last one i bought was the letting go but i don't think i got much out of it. the last one i loved was master & everyone, and that's been a while. superwolf was p dope too iirc.
i did see him live about 2 or so years back in nashville and it was great.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:13 (six years ago) link
Has the BPB covers Susanna come up on any threads yet?
― djh, Thursday, 23 November 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
It's lovely, by the way.
― djh, Friday, 22 December 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
i dig it but some of these are really hard to enjoy when i know the prior versions
― marcos, Friday, 22 December 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
Yeah otm. I adore Bonnie Billy, but also the Susanna album. These renditions mostly make me yearn for Susanna's song tbh. It doesn't really work for me.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 22 December 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
had a dream i heard his new album. it was soundtracked via a trip through some rugged plains, it sounded avant garde - or shite tbh, is it like that
― dig me out requiem (Ross), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
some of the stuff he's done with Mick Turner (Marquis de Tren, Dirty Three, et al) is bordering on free-form / 'out there', drifting song forms. I sometimes wonder about guys like David Berman (Silver Jews), Will Oldham, and others--making weird, spoken word / sound art shizz... Tim Barnes (played drums on American Water) does a lot of "avant garde" sort of percussion / sound art--often recording with others in the same areas of interest.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
I assumed this was revived b/c he has another "self covers" album coming out - http://www.dragcity.com/products/songs-of-love-and-horror
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
Was the "Songs of Love and Horror" book any good? Pondered picking up the CD but it seems to be fairly unavailable, at the moment.
― djh, Sunday, 17 February 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
It's worth browsing, at least, because there are notes on each song as well as lyrics.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 17 February 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
Ta, Eazy.
Pleased to have bought the book - it's a nice object and the comments often cheer me.
The CD seems kind of nice but inessential - and the inclusion of an old track and a cover seems a bit odd (or conceptually messy).
― djh, Sunday, 3 March 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
still love this record but i did not hear orig recordings first so whatevs. not a huge fan of will's full on pre-bonnie cracky voice when i have dipped into the earlier stuff.
― buzza, Friday, 4 December 2020 10:51 (three years ago) link
I happened to revisit it last week... some really nice arrangements. (Though the songs I like most are the ones I liked most in their original versions; it didn’t open up any others for me.)
― wet tip hen ax (egg drop mix) (morrisp), Friday, 4 December 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link