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Joseph Will Oldham (born January 15, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded in collaboration with dozens of other musicians under variations of Palace (Palace, Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music).
Nov 10, 2023 · His name is Will Oldham. You might know him better, though, as Bonnie "Prince" Billy or Palace or as half of the folk rock group Superwolves. His work has spanned three decades now and earlier...
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- Palace Brothers, “Ohio River Boat Song” (1992) When I was little, one year we went to Scotland. It was a trip kind of organized by the woman who ran the theater where I studied.
- Palace Brothers, “I Tried to Stay Healthy for You” (1993) All of those songs [from There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You] were pretty much written during that summer [when Oldham was staying with friend and Slint member Todd Brashear in Bloomington, Indiana], and it was kind of a daily-discipline thing to work on the songs every day at the end of the day.
- Palace Brothers, “(I Was Drunk at the) Pulpit” (1993) It was relatively agonizing to arrange and capture all of the songs [on There Is No-One] and when it came to [“(I Was Drunk at the) Pulpit”] I think at that moment I just thought, this needs to be simple, because if we start getting into it the way we’ve gotten into all of the other songs, this song will kill us.
- Palace, “West Palm Beach” (1994) [“West Palm Beach” is] similar to “Ohio River Boat Song.” Is that a genre of song when there’s a geographic reference that’s the central theme of the song?
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About Will Oldham. Will Oldham (born December 24, 1970), better known by the stage name Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor from Louisville, Kentucky. He is...
May 22, 2023 · Will Oldham has announced his first solo Bonnie “Prince” Billy album since 2019. The new album, Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You, is out August 11 via Drag City. Ethan Osman made the music...
