Will Oldham/Palace/Bonnie Prince Billie: S&D

SALVATION IS FREE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR93lB1_h0w

Unlike the rest of Drag City catalog, he is slowly adding his catalog to Spotify week by week. Everything (including singles) up to Viva Last Blues is now available.

Aye - just noticed Days in the Wake and Viva Last Blues, too.

Hope and the Mountain ep and a few early singles too, if you search the various Palace pseudonyms.

His recent Merle Haggard homage, Best Troubador has been getting quite a lot of replays. Odd how i find it far more rewarding to hear Billy than i do the original material.

Arise Therefore, Joya and I See A Darkness have all appeared on Spotify, sometime in the last couple of weeks.

favorite album: Viva Last Blues (More Brother Rides, New Partner)

favorite song: "For the Mekons et al” from the Hey Drag City comp.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJf2iY2Kbx0

https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.416230857.5464/flat,550x550,075,f.u1.jpg

wat

Gotta say - whatever its "deal" may be, this song grabs me more than his stuff usually does (I've played it 3 or 4 times now).

heh

https://i.imgur.com/7WfC0br.png

https://www.stereogum.com/2006096/bonnie-prince-billy-blueberry-jam-video/video/
"Per a press release, the song came about after Oldham and his wife ate THC-laced chocolate-covered blueberries soon after the false missile alert that was sent in Hawaii at the beginning of the year. Oldham wrote the song during that experience, and then repurposed it a few weeks later to help out his friend that was opening a weed shop in California."

lmao this is GOLD. thanks bill, you are the light of my life.

Nice

It’s prime time to pick blueberries n sell them at the local farmers market tbh

I smell a hit.

It’s his “Margaritaville,” not in a bad way.

I think it is terrific… I am not a scholar, but I can't think of a song of his that's even remotely uptempo, other than "work hard Play hard." Incidentally, the only thing that recommends the new right wing american character that Sasha Baron Cohen debuted on the new show (somehow he can't do an american accent for shit) is that its eerily reminiscent of Will.

song of the summer

i love this and indeed blueberries

I'm fantasising over this coming out 20 years ago and Chris Evans hammering it on the breakfast show, turning him into a one-hit wonder

i know it's Oldham and I'd forgive him pretty much anything but this has got my 'shit whimsy' Geiger clicking like mad.

oldham is one of favorite artists but i ignore probably 70% of the shit he's created

(Side note: hadn't noticed that Superwolf has made it onto Spotify.)

He's been adding a year's worth of output to Spotify every Monday.

I see a darkness is all time

this new song would be cornily endearing if BPB was a dad, but I'm pretty sure he isn't a dad

"Whipped" has climbed into my BPBPOV

He seems like a person who is v. much enjoying life these days.

The chorus of this song reminds me of the beginning of "Katamari On The Rocks"

#noizeboardnostalgia

He seems like a person who is v. much enjoying life these days.

The pics in the 2nd post were in a big NYT feature, so you could relax re: your stalker paranoia!

i never tire of looking at photos of artists' homes

i never want to look at photos of artists' homes! it feels so invasive and gross to me. every time i have looked i wish i hadn't.

https://i.imgur.com/kPPdDYM.jpg

TFW your very first show is opening for Big Star's big reunion in STL and you hire the best backing band you know.

Who are those guys?

https://grantland.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/slint-1-hp.gif?w=2048

IT US

Haha, didn't recognize them with dry hair

i barely recognized Oldham with hair

I thought he was Beck at first glance.

good grief that guy really did get all the breaks didn't he?!
does anyone know/care to share how it happened that he was opening for big star as his first show? i am curious

No Pajo, I think that's Grant Barger on banjo.

https://i.imgur.com/94g42Uv.png

i love seeing photos of young bill! what a gem.

thank you for the response! From what I can tell, the answer is "there was somehow an offer"? i am not satisfied! from whom? why?

It was at University of Missouri... maybe some of the guys had connections to the student bookers? (I'm totally just guessing)

Maybe. There is definitely something more factual behind "there was somehow an offer". Still curious.

I remembered that my wife works with a guy who was one of the two college DJs who organized that Big Star reunion show... I asked her to pick his brain and see if he knows/recalls anything about the Palace booking.