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Updated 03/08/18
Old
news
USA:
04/08/18 Louisville, KY, Odeon (opening for Faun
Fables, tickets)
This show will be recorded according to this piece (thanks ray)
26/09/18 Durham, NC, Duke University (lecture info)
27/09/18 Durham, NC, Duke University (lecture info)
With The Wandering All-Stars & Motor Royalty:
28/09/18 Durham, NC, Baldwin Auditorium (info)
07/10/18 Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago
08/10/18 Nelsonville, OH, Stuart's Opera House
09/10/18 Alexandria, VA, Birchmere Music Hall
11/10/18 Brooklyn, NY, Murmrr Theatre
13/10/18 North Adams, MA, Mass MOCA
14/10/18 Portland, ME, One Longfellow Square
Old tourdates:
09/06/18 Boston, MA, The Wilbur Theatre (solo
with Six Organs of Admittance)
10/06/18 Peterborough, NH, The Thing In The Spring
festival (solo)
11/06/18 Burlington, VM, Arts Riot Studio (solo
with State Champion)
25/05/18 Louisville, KY,
Headliners Music Hall, Roadie record release show featuring
Bonnie Prince Billy & Dawn Landes (thanks ray) (info)
with Eighth Blackbird
21/04/18 Los Angeles, CA, Theatre at Ace Hotel (pictures, video and review)
29/04/18 Cincinnati, OH,
MusicNow
01/04/18
Louisville, Zanzibar - Bonnie Prince Billy sings along with Watter (look) (thanks Robin)
22-25/03/18 Knoxville, TN, Big
Ears Festival
23/03/18 Bonnie Prince Billy appeared at the Susanna "Go Dig My Grave" concert at
the Big Ears Festival (read and look)
26/01/18 Hawaii National
Park, HI, The Kilauea Visitor Center Auditorium (with live
stitching by Elsa Hansen Oldham)
11/12/17 St. Louis, MO, Saint Louis University
Prison Program
Bonnie solo:
06/10/17 Charleston, WV, Kin Ship Goods (info)(thanks Greg)
Matewan screening and Q&A with John Sayles, Maggie Renzi and
Will Oldham in attendance (info)
07/10/17 South Charleston, WV, La Belle Theater
23/09/17 Louisville, KY,
Cropped Out Music Festival (info) (pictures)
as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
& The Bonafide United Musicians
UK:
28/29/30/
July '17 Suffolk, Mekonville
festival (look and listen here and here and
check footage of the whole festival from here)
Bonnie Prince Billy
26/07/17 Lisbon, Teatro Da Trindade Inatel
27/07/17 London, Union Chapel (pictures and a review)
Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie Prince Billy
16/07/17 Valencia, Festival Grau, Espai Mutant
17/07/17 Barcelona, Razzmatazz 2 (pics)
18/07/17 Madrid, Veranos de La Villa
19/07/17 Bilbao, Kafe Antzokia
20/07/17 Oviedo, Lata De Zinc
solo:
29/04/17 Boulder Creek, CA, Camp Krem, DIO
Festival (info)
30/04/17 Sonoma, CA, Gundlach Bundschu Winery (info)
01/05/17 Ashland, OR, Unitarian Universalist
Church (at 87 Fourth Street) (look and listen)
04/05/17 Seattle, WA, Neptune Theatre
06/05/17 Durham, NC, Baldwin Auditorium (look and here)
•Listen to a new song by Bonnie Prince Billy: Blueberry Jam,
download only, here's the video (17/07/18)
•Listen to Roadie's
album Unfamiliar Skies. It contains Will Oldham singing on a different version of Hope Is All I'm Holding (14/06/18)
•Listen to 2 songs from an upcoming album named One With The Birds by Bryce Dessner
and Eighth
Blackbird featurig Will Oldham (thanks ray)(08/06/18)
•Another Susanna song is released by Bonnie Prince Billy: Wild Is The Will, check it out here or here (thanks ray)(20/04/18)
Take a look at the video clip to accompany the music
•In
October Songs
Of Love and Horror (the collected lyrics of Will Oldham) will come out through W.W. Norton & Company, Inc (thanks Greg)(17/04/18)
•Joan
Shelley released Rivers and Vessels. Bonnie Prince Billy sings along on Dolly Parton's The Bridge (29/03/18)
•To be released in April: the original soundtrack of White Fang or Croc Blanc.
Contains the song You Will Find A Home by Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks John)(29/03/18)
The song can be found on iTunes already.
•Bonnie
Prince Billy appears on the
new album Echo of You by Kira Skov. He sings along on two songs. The album is a
tribute to Kira's recently deceased
husband Nicolai Munch-Hansen, who was a big fan of BPB (thanks
Jesper)(17/03/18)
•There is a box of 20 copies found of the Bonnie 'Prince'
Billy - Notes For Future Lovers 7" from 2008.
They are on sale and all proceeds will benefit the River City Drum Corp in Louisville (03/03/18)
•Listen to Hope Is All I'm Holding, a new song by Bonnie & Roadie. Buy it because all proceeds will go to March For Our Lives (27/02/18)(thanks Roland)
•Hummingbirds & Helicopters Vol 1: A Benefit for South Texas is the first
volume in a series of disaster relief benefit albums Jolie Holland plans to release under the same name.
It contains a Mickey Newbury cover of If You Ever Get to
Houston by Bonnie “Prince”
Billy, Joan Shelley, Elsa
Hansen Oldham, and Nathan Salsburg. To be released April 6
(27/02/18)
•Preview: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy on new Louisville Is For Lovers Valentine's album (09/01/18)
•Louisville Is For Lovers Vol. 13
"Darlin Beloved" will contain a Bonnie Prince Billy and John King duet with the Winger Brothers.
To be released February 2, 2018. The song will be released as a
single on January the 1st (24/12/17)
•To be released November 17: Wolf Of The Cosmos by Bonnie Prince Billy. Bonny sings Susanna, to
simply try and save the world.
Sonata Dwarf
Mix Cosmos is an old
companion of his, and with the Chijimi house band + 1, they bring
it all back home again,
this time to the space in Bonny's place. On Drag City and Domino. Look at the video of People Living (thanks Jeff)
•A new Bonnie
Prince Billy 7" comes
out early November; Conquer b/w You Have Been Seen. Check for details here (thanks Per)(09/10/17)
•Lo Carmen
is set to release her 6th album Lovers Dreamers Fighters, on November 10. Bonnie
“Prince” Billy lends his voice to duet on Sometimes It’s Hard.
The 10-track album will be available digitally and on vinyl
through Chiquita Records. (thanks ray)(02/09/17)
•Take a look at this video
where Bonnie
Prince Billy with The Roots of Music play the Mekons song The Curse. Read here about it. (thanks John)
•Bitchin
Bajas and Bonnie Prince Billy
released a live album: Live at 7th Floor Tokyo through Bandcamp (thanks Fuyuki)
(13/08/17)
Also available is Live at Cafe Oto London, earlier available on cassette only.
•All Nations All Relations (A Benefit
Compilation For Standing Rock) contains a Bitchin Bajas + Bonnie Prince Billy track: These Are Fortunes
(Improv Nola Night 2). It's a free download (13/08/17)
•On October 20, Thee Conductor
will release his LP album Cotton Tornado through Sixgunlover
Records.
It features Bonnie
"Prince" Billy
singing on the track Face Crinkle.
More info here (22/07/17)
•Mark
Kozelek and Sean Yeaton release their album Yellow Kitchen on June 30. It has a contribution by Will Oldham
(thanks ray)(24/06/17)
•Drag City announces the release of a new 7": Leonard b/w Carolyn (thanks
John)(10/05/17)
•Listen here to Bonnie Prince Billy's Best Troubador (thanks David)(28/04/17)
•Listen and look at Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Elsa Oldham doing Merle Haggard's Bad Actor
(thanks ray)(08/04/17)
•Listen to Courtney Marie Andrews & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's contribution to Our First 100 Days: I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be
Free (27/03/17)
•Drag City will release Bonnie "Prince" Billy's new album of Merle Haggard covers Best Troubador on May 5.
Listen now to Mama Tried with Oscasr Parsons, which is available as an
exclusive free download-only track, available in advance of the
release date.
Look at the 360 degrees video
here (thanks
Mike)(09/03/17)
•On April 22 or Record Store Day, a 3 song 7" EP will
be released by Bonnie Prince Billy and Nathan Salzburg, through Paradise of Bachelors in an edition of 2000 (09/03/17)
Check this video (27/03/17)
•Listen to Treasure Map, a new song by Bonnie Prince Billy, from
a Southern
Poverty Law Center benefit
EP presented by The End of All Music (thanks all who mentioned
this)(22/02/17)
•Listen to In Good Faith,
a new song by Bonne Prince Billy accompanied by an interview with
Fogged Clarity (thanks John)(23/01/17)
•Find here info on Our First 100 Days, a (digital) compilation of 100 songs, with
exclusive recordings by various folks, among them a duet by Will Oldham & Courtney Marie Andrews.
The funds go to organisations promoting causes likely to be
threatened by the impending trump presidency (thanks
ray)(16/01/17)
•Oscar
Parsons & Bonnie Prince Billy released a 7": Happy Song/At The Corner Of The Stairs. For info check here (19/12/16)(thanks Eamonn)
•From November 24 until May 28, 2017 you can visit the
exhibition Reclining Nude with a Man Playing the
Guitar by Marijn van Kreij at the Hermitage in Amsterdam.
Van Kreij wishes actively involvement in the exhibition: the
visitors are invited to play the song Go Folks, Go by Bonnie ‘Prince’
Billy and the Cairo Gang,
after that you
can look at the works again, from a different point of view.
Reclining Nude with Man Playing the Guitar will be accompanied by
an exhibition catalogue containing the complete ‘Picasso
grids’; included is, among various contributions,
a 7" flexi disc of Go Folks, Go, by Bonnie ‘Prince’
Billy and the Cairo Gang
(09/12/16)
•The album Darkness and Light by John Legend seems to have 3 songs co-written by Will Oldham (06/12/16)
•Listen to I Know Better by John Legend. Written with Blake Mills and Will Oldham (thanks Tonnie)(29/11/16)
•Will
Oldham, Tom Waits, Nick
Cave, Bon Iver and many others penned grown-up children's stories
for Stories for Ways and Means. Check (29/11/16)
•Read about the year 2009 and 2010 now on the Drag City site (03/08/18)
•Read about the year 2008 now on the Drag City site (17/07/18)
•‘Live from a Dark Room’ offers a pictorial history of
Louisville’s punk, indie music scene from ’80s to
present day.
Read about Will Oldham
and other photgraphers (thanks ray)(13/07/18)
•Read about the year 2007 here now on the Drag City site (13/07/18)
•Read about the year 2006 here now on the Drag City site (08/07/18)
•Will
Oldham, Matt Sweeney, and Rick Rubin Talk 'Superwolf', read here (thanks ray)(01/07/18)
•Read about the year 2004 & 2005 here now on the Drag City site (26/06/18)
•Read about the year 2003 here now on the Drag City site (17/06/18)
•Listen here to the performance of Susanna and Friends, including the singing of Bonnie Prince
Billy (thanks ray)(08/06/18)
•You can listen on The Past and The Curious Ep. 21 to Will Oldham
sharing the story of John Ledyard (03/06/18)
•The year 2001 read is here now on the Drag City site (03/06/18)
•Here's an interview with Cat Power with a Bonnie Prince Billy reference (thanks
ray)(03/06/18)
•And even more readings on the Drag City site, now on the
years 1999 and 2000 (27/05/18)
•And more readings on the Drag City site, this time on Bonnie Prince Billy 1998 (12/5/2018)
•More readings on the Drag City site on Palace 1994 and Palace 1996 (29/04/18)
•Read an interview with Lisa Kaplan of Eighth Blackbird here. She mentions a recording of songs for release on
Bryce and Aaron Dessner’s record
label (thanks
ray)(25/04/18)
•Read and look at the Eighth Backbird show from April 21 here (thanks ray)(25/04/18)
•Longtime collaborator/guitarist Roadie will release his album Unfamiliair Skies on May 25. Bonnie sings along on Hope Is All I'm Holding that was released earlier as a single
(17/04/18)
•Read this Drag City piece about Palace 1995 (17/04/18)
•Take a look at the video
for Kira Skov's
Lilac Sky featuring Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks Robin)(17/04/18)
•Listen to a Bonnie Prince Billy cover by The Boring Couple (thanks ray)(07/04/18)
•Watch Watter and Bonnie Prince
Billy perform at Zanzibar
(thanks Robin)(07/04/18)
•Read this Drag City piece about Palace Brothers (thanks Tor)(07/04/18)
•Is there a new Bonny album
coming up? check here
(thanks John)(29/03/18)
•Listen to last year's Mrs Robinson's Valentine Special here (thanks Tonnie)(20/02/18)
•Listen to the Big Blend Radio Interview: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (thanks
Christopher)(13/02/18)
Read more on the visit here
•An animated version of Jack London’s classic 1906
novel White Fang was screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
The film is expected to be released later this year. The film
features an original song performed by Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks ray)(22/01/18)
•Take al look at this promo of Cold Case - Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, to see Will Oldham play along (thanks Tonnie)(24/12/17)
•The musical puppet tribute named Make Believe Neighborhood, which celebrates Mister Rogers’
Neighborhood‘s 50th anniversary, features musical
contributions from Bonnie Prince Billy, Andrew Bird and others. It will be
performed February 2 – 25 at the In The
Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
in Minneapolis. Martin Dosh
is the musical director (thanks ray)(24/12/17)
•Ned Oldham has released the final songs of his Dark Mountain EP. Listen from here (01/12/17)
•Volume 3 to 5 of the Louisville Is For Lovers compilation albums are reissued. Volume
3 contains a Bonnie
Prince Billy song. Check from here (01/12/17)
•Take a look at footage from 2005 of the Green Man Festival. Superwolf starts at 4:44 minutes (thanks
ray)(26/11/17)
•Listen to Avey Tare
cover Will
Oldham’s West Palm
Beach (thanks John)(26/11/17)
•Read about Ned Oldham's EP Dark Mountain (thanks
ray)(26/11/17)
•Listen to Murmur 63 : Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "Home School You" (thanks
ray)(12/11/17)
•Listen here to PBS 'American Masters' series: Bonnie Prince Billy profiled / interviewed on (thanks
ray)(12/11/17)
•Listen to Duncan Trussel's
podcast episode 264, having an interview with Will Oldham (03/11/17)(thanks ray)
•Flamenco singer Rosalía
recorded a cover of I See A Darkness on her abum Los Ángeles. Read here about her and look at a live version here
(thanks ray)(26/10/17)
•Take a look at the video of Lo Carmen's
Sometimes It's Hard (featuring Bonnie Prince Billy on vocals, not
in the video) (thanks ray)(26/10/17)
•Read here about Watter's new
release and their future plans that might incude a Bonnie Prince Billy collaboration (thanks ray)(26/10/17)
•In Louisville there are five 'Hometown Hero' banners set to
honor the city's people and bands. Bonnnie Prince Billy is one of them. Check here (thanks ray)(13/10/17)
•Take a look at the video of Treasure Map.
A song by Bonnie
Prince Billy, from the Southern Poverty Law
Center benefit EP (09/10/17)
•Take a look at the video of the Thee Conductor song Face Crinkle featuring Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks ray)(25/09/17)
•Listen to Sometimes It's Hard by Lo
Carmen with special
guest vocals by Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks Jan)(25/09/17)
•Read here a short piece on Bonnie in the irish times
(thanks ray)(19/09/17)
•The arise mailinglist has stopped since Dan has passed
away. May he rest in peace. If you’d like to join the new
list, you’ll need to send a simple request e-mail to:
ariselist-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Put ‘subscribe’ in the
subject line (thanks ray)(02/09/17)
•Mine Wars Museum teams up with ‘Matewan’ creators for 30th anniversary film
screening.
Will Oldham, who played preacher boy Danny Radner in
the film, will also be in attendance (thanks ray)(23/08/17)
•Check A
Ghost Story review and Will
Oldham Q&A in Uncut. Here's another interview with David Lowery (thanks John)(14/08/17)
•Listen to Avey Tare
doing a cover of West Palm Beach (around minute 29) (thanks
ray)(13/08/17)
•Take a look at Luke Drozd's
poster for the Union Chapel show (thanks ray)(13/08/17)
•Here's an interview with David Lowery on Ghost Story and some more info. Will acts in the movie (thanks John)(08/07/17))
•Listen to an interview on DoubleJ (thanks ray)(08/07/17)
•The July 2017 issue of Record Collector has a piece on Will Oldham (thanks ray)(24/06/17)
•Check Essential Wax with Bonnie Prince Billy (17/06/17)
•Listen to Joan Shelley and Will Oldham playing Night Comes On from Leonard Cohen on the Lagniappe Sessions(13/06/17)
•Here's a nice story about the Boxhead Ensemble, includes Will Oldham related matter (10/06/17)
•Take a look at the video of No Time To Cry (thanks ray)(02/06/17)
•Will
Oldham talks about his new album of Merle Haggard covers (thanks
ray)(21/05/17)
•Ned
Oldham released a new song, listen here (21/05/17)
•Here's an interview in the Guardian (thanks
ray)(16/05/17)
•Drag City announces first-ever streaming releases (thanks
ray)(10/05/17)
•Nice review here (thanks Cuneyt)(10/05/17)
•Read here about Best Troubador (thanks ray)(08/05/17)
•See here: Bonnie Prince Billy talks Merle Haggard tribute album (thanks
ray)(08/05/17)
•Here's the first of two pieces by Vish Khanna that are derived from the interview below
(08/05/17)
•Listen here to Vish Khanna's
podcast, where he's in discussion with Bonnie Prince Billy (04/05/17)
•Here's a read on Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s guide to country music’s
greatest singers (thanks ray)(04/05/17)
•Read here how Will Oldham
talks about Best Troubador (thanks Roland)(28/04/17)
•Read here how Jason Molina
charmed Will
Oldham and first got signed
(thanks John)(28/04/17)
•Het Zesde Metaal released a 7" on RSD 2017 containing a cover
of A King At
Night, translated to West
Flemish as Min
Tempel (thanks
Aldwin)(23/04/17)
•Take a look at Will and Elsa Oldham
at Louisville TV (thanks Jeff)(17/04/17)
•Here's an interview with Will Oldham in Rogue Valley Messenger (thanks ray)(15/04/17)
•Take a look at the newly uploaded long version of Ohio River Boat Song. Filmed by Will Oldham,
edited by Oldham and Dan Osborn
(15/04/17)
•Listen and look to a Cairo Gang session (thanks John)(15/04/17)
•Read an article about Elsa Hansen Oldham in NY Times (thanks Ross)(08/04/17)
•Take a look at the trailer of David Lowery's Ghost
Story. Featuring Will Oldham, Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck (thanks
ray)(08/04/17)
•Take a look at Down In The Willow Garden, performed by Eighth Blackbird & Bonnie Prince Billy. Written by Bryce Dessner (08/04/17)
•Check this nice picture
(thanks John)(31/03/17)
•Two older Bonnie gigs from 2003 in Paris turned up on
youtube, you can see them here and here (thanks Nathalie)(31/03/17)
•Ciaran
Lavery releases his A King at Night EP on Record Store Day 2017. It contains 5 covers
of Bonnie
Prince Billy songs
(27/03/17)
•Read The Guardian interview with Lanre Bakare (thanks
ray)(27/03/17)
•Here's an older interview from Uncut (thanks John)(16/03/17)
•Ned
Oldham released a new song:
Dark Mountain, listen here (28/02/17)
•Take a look at Michael Tunk's analog collage for My home is
the sea (22/02/17)
•A new Cairo Gang record is coming up: Untouchable. Pre-order through Drag City. To be released March 24 (12/02/17)
•Read more about David Lowery's A Ghost Story (thanks ray)(12/02/17)
•It is that time again for Mrs. Robinson's Annual Will Oldham Valentine Special on whfr.fm
89.3FM. Check this Facebook event.
Every year on or around Valentine's Day Mrs. Robinson does a
special radio show dedicated to the music of Will Oldham
(06/02/17)
•Look at this picture that appears in Daniel Corrigan's book Heyday: 35 Years of Music in Minneapolis (16/01/17)
•To watch: two videos from Joan Shelley and Will Oldham
playing two Leonard Cogen songs. Start here (30/12/16)
•Robert Arellano released his book Don Dimaio of La Plata. It contains a blurb on the back by Will Oldham. Read this interview (09/12/16)
•The movie A Ghost Story
by David Lowery gets it's premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2017. Cast: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Will Oldham,
Sonia Acevedo, Rob Zabrecky, Liz Franke. Read (thanks John)(06/12/16)
•Look at Victim of Providence, with some camerawork of Will Oldham. Created by Bob Arellano & Friends (thanks Jan)(07/11/16)
