Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Bonnie "Prince" Billy sings Greatest Palace Music

i guess i bought this when it came out but really only came around to it about 2-3 years ago.

Did anyone hear the self-titled from a couple years ago?

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.

Has the BPB covers Susanna come up on any threads yet?

It's lovely, by the way.

i dig it but some of these are really hard to enjoy when i know the prior versions

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It's worth browsing, at least, because there are notes on each song as well as lyrics.

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).

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.

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.)