only watched a few songs from that, p good so far
not optimistic about the odds of this ever coming out (at least as a double album:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BcqDsVZAk_E/
― flappy bird, Saturday, 16 December 2017 02:29 (six years ago) link
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I just finished a few weeks recording in Nashville for the follow-up to Ogilala. So far (the new album) is more stark and tangled. Also looks like it will be a double (16 songs at least)
― flappy bird, Saturday, 16 December 2017 02:30 (six years ago) link
lol i really hope he puts it out
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 December 2017 02:31 (six years ago) link
me too. i will say i was p sure what became Ogilala was shelved before it was announced in August (he recorded it in the summer of 2016... Linda Strawberry posted a picture of him doing vocals and said the album was called The Land of Maybe). i still have reservations about this new one though mostly because he's working with Howard Willing and presumably self-producing again, so there goes the quality control of Rick Rubin. i don't think Ogilala sounds drastically better than any of the post-2000 records, but Billy needs to have someone listen to all of his demos and pick out the gems that he's been throwing away for years now. i don't know what happened to his quality control compass. if not for Rubin "Aeronaut" not only wouldn't have been on the album it probably never would've been recorded. anyway he's still got some good momentum atm and seems like he's in a good place, hope "Cardinal Rule" is on it.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 16 December 2017 02:42 (six years ago) link
this is approaching Chrysanthemum levels of post-SP songwriting for me lately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AAtElcmYic
― flappy bird, Thursday, 1 November 2018 06:37 (five years ago) link