Browse by Artist: BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY

Artist:	BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Title:	Sings Greatest Palace Music
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 252CD

"For years, Palace fans and friends have reveled in the knowledge of one of the world's most unique songbooks. Now they can encounter some of the best-known of the songs all over again, in contrast and collaboration with the originals. There's no hard-and-fast, reductive reasoning to the way these songs have been remade. They were chosen by the fans and recorded with a new group of participants, in different places than the originals. The outcomes are different. It's a whole other beast, not merely a remix record or simply 'Palace with strings' -- though the former and the latter both come to you with strings attached."

Artist:	BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Title:	Agnes, Queen of Sorrow
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	DC 278CD

"A miniature disc, containing just a few songs more from the Greatest Palace Music sessions. For gluttons like us, this is a perfect aperitif. Leading off with the duet we now know 'Agnes, Queen of Sorrow' to be, this dessert bite veers into lighter territory with a single-that-never-was (until now!), 'Pussyfooting.' A-glitter with jewels, this is a different kind of greatest music, a glide onto the dancefloor and an utter delight. Previously unreleased in any form. Line up the hard-core fans -- we've got a little gem for them. In addition to two non-LP tracks, this enhanced CD single also includes a video for 'Agnes, Queen of Sorrow'."

Artist:	BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Title:	No More Workhorse Blues
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$5.00
Catalog #:	DC 285CD

"Like 'Agnes' before it, 'No More Workhorse Blues' is a fan favorite from the GPM collection. 'Ruby' is a second collaboration from the makers of 'Happy Child' -- Bonny Billy and Tweaker, those crazy bastards! 'The Kiss' is Bonnie's timeless rendition of Judee Sill's classic ballad -- perfect for playing at wedding processionals, divorce processionals and other memorable social affairs. this enhanced CD also includes a video for 'No More Workhorse Blues' directed by Harmony Korine."

Artist:	BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Title:	Cursed Sleep
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	DC 316CD

3 track CD single. "The title track of this single is smooth, elegant and assured, with every bit of tangled hair in place. Swaggering in vocally with a hitherto unknown quality and with a gang of string players in tow (the long-haired kind!), Bonnie receives harmonies alternately cute, cool and ballsy from one of his (and our) favorite singers, Dawn 'The Faun' McCarthy. Sweet melody abounds, as it should for an advance look into a mind-blowing new album. And the rest -- Eyes flashing, 'The Signifying Wolf' shuffles discordant through a snake-pit of questions, declamations and undulations -- a dance we're all familiar with, so grab a butt-plug and jump on in. The conga line forms to the rear. As always, when it's all through, there's 'God's Small Song' to be sung -- red-eyed and feeling no pain."

Artist:	BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Title:	Cold & Wet
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	DC 318CD

"First came 'Cursed Sleep,' then The Letting Go. Now get ready to get Cold & Wet, the latest release in a series from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, all centered around the awesome new album, The Letting Go. His new issuances are always greeted with a razed glass and a yell or two from dark corners. Cold & Wet will not let the fucks down -- a favorite from The Letting Go combined with a favorite 'Master and Everyone' song (cut LIVE) and a rendition of a Kenny Rogers favorite from the 1980s, plus (on the CD) the video for 'Cold & Wet'."

Artist:	BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Title:	Lay & Love
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD EP
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	DC 329CD

"The third single from Bonny's momentous latest. The now-mythic The Letting Go group is fully in effect on Lay & Love -- Jim White and Paul Oldham on rhythm, Emmett Kelly playing guitar, Dawn McCarthy bringing voice and Valgier Sigurdsson recording and mixing. Outside of the context of The Letting Go, 'Lay And Love' shines ever brighter and kicks off a remarkable fourteen minutes of musical experience -- for after 'Lay And Love,' the balance of the single is given over to two rarely-covered songs from the catalog of Bob Dylan. 'Se�or' is rendered by Bonnie all on his lonesome (with recording by 'Tusitala de las olas'). 'Going to Acapulco' features backing from the early days of the century -- a New Orleans-style brass band accompaniment."

Artist:	BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Title:	Strange Form Of Life
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	DC 337CD

"Another haunting chapter from The Letting Go, 'Strange Form of Life' is highlighted for your edification. The gauzy webs of this song gleam with clarity divorced from its siblings on The Letting Go; the music made by Emmett Kelly, Dawn McCarthy, Paul Oldham and Jim White shines all the brighter. In stark relief are the three tracks from a Daytrotter session, done during the Bonny Billy free tour of Midwestern states in August 2006. In the wide-open spaces of Iowa, the ten year-old songs 'New Partner,' and 'The Sun Highlights the Lack in Each,' are delivered in solo performances of Bonnie with guitar, both finding new life in the process. Also delivered is a pre-release version of 'The Seedling,' bristling with the energy found in the layers of The Letting Go version. The appearance of an electric guitar in this ostensible 'solo' performance only adds to the mystery and menace of the song."

Artist:	BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Title:	Ask Forgiveness
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD EP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	DC 354CD

"Following the many intensities of The Letting Go and its three singles and EP, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy went to Philadelphia to cool out with a record of covers versions. But the combination of summer days, Philadelphia streets and the way Bonnie was ambushed in the cooling process, producing eight sizzlers instead and creating the need to 'ask forgiveness.' Redolent of the haze hovering o'er the city of brotherly love, Ask Forgiveness was recorded on the fly at Hexham Head. With a basic alignment of Bonnie and Meg Baird on acoustics and vocals and Greg Weeks on electric guitar, aided and abetted by Maggie Wienk on cello at times, the colors begin shifting and flashing right away, with acoustics glinting and a bit of electric guitar tone, running clean to resonant to Leslie and back; a light touch on the faders bringing vocals and guitars to and fro in perfect time. Covering a handful of diverse songwriters (Newbury, Gu�mundsd�ttir, Anzalone, Ochs, Billy, Haggard, Caldwell and Kelly), Bonnie makes each one of their songs his own simply, through the process of having taken it within and loving it -- and then singing it out again, in good company."

Artist:	BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Title:	Lie Down In The Light
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 367CD

"Bonnie 'Prince' Billy is letting the sun shine in so you can Lie Down In The Light. Before you get undressed, we're talking about a brand-new 12 song album of excellent new songs and sounds, okay? Get that thong back up your crack and listen! Bristling with guitar strings and laced with harmonies, Lie Down In The Light is the brightest album to date from the Bonnie 'Prince.' Brisk tempos skip among his signature slower numbers and ballads. Bonnie's vocals are among his most expressive: carefully nuanced, singing all up and down his range, showing him at a judiciously dynamic and tuneful apex. Coloring the sound, is a subtle backdrop of percussive slaps and shakes (but nary a drumkit), touches of keys and steel, delicate harmony-vocal arrangements and other sweet surprises that might send some sad-sack fans back to their auto-erotic dungeons, fresh toys in hand. Lie Down In The Light features Bonnie repeat players Paul Oldham and Emmett Kelly and also benefits from the multi-instrumental presence of Shahzad Izmaily, who works percussion, piano, guitar, banjo and the mysterious, sensual 'row of wenches' -- I mean, mysterious, sensual 'row of wrenches.' New (duet) partner Ashley Webber forges her own presence next to Bonnie in a pair of fantastic turns. Additionally, some of Nashville's finest appear in between the band's strings and harrows, adding light (and yeah, we see a little darkness, too) wherever they appear."

Artist:	BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Title:	The Letting Go
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 420CD

"Through the years and the shape-shifts of different albums, players and songs, the music of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy has proven to be an experience of sharing: Bonny sharing the songs with musicians for a new experience; Bonny sharing the record with you. What do you think? The Letting Go is an overwhelming undertaking. As mentioned, there are strings -- lovely charts that do so much more than just trace chord changes up and down the neck. Arrangements by Ryder McNair and Nico Muhly are threaded throughout the record, augmenting a simple quintet of players to provide a sixth sense. The deceptive nature of his band is on display from the top. 'Filthy' Jim White is known far and wide for his resource behind the drum kit and he proves it song after song, with sensitivity that provokes dynamic variety from skins, an acoustic depth to the room. Paul Oldham's bass is a feeling accompaniment to Bonny's guitar, played with brotherly clairvoyance and constancy. Young Emmett Kelly's clean electric guitar lines roam within the web and suddenly shine, are blues and folk and r'n'b in shifting turn, guilelessly tactic and soulfully expressive. And up front with Bonny is the bewitching Dawn McCarthy of Faun Fables. Her vocal flights on those records can hardly prepare one for the intimacy and empathy of her harmonies and other voices on The Letting Go."

Artist:	BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Title:	Wilding In The West
Label:	P-VINE RECORDS (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	PCD 93080

"Wilding In The West is a Japanese exclusive live album featuring Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and his band. It is the second live album of Prince's career following 2006's Summer in the Southeast. The album was recorded in central coastal California by Paul Oldham and features three new songs co-written with Neil Michael Hagerty. The band includes Bonnie regulars, Dawn McCarthy, Emmett Kelly, Aram Stith, Azita & Will & Paul Oldham."

Artist:	BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Title:	Summer In the Southeast
Label:	SEA NOTE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SN 011CD

"Fans know that seeing the Bonnie 'Prince' live is an experience akin to but unlike hearing his records -- it's the same man up there, but changed, somehow. And his impulses seem to be entirely switched out. Songs get the radical retune at the drop of a hat -- and with every new collection of musicians, a different version. That's what we have here, a set of classic Bonnie songs (and the odd Palace number) affected by their players and the environment to climb new heights time and again. Rocking and raging, dropping to whisper and lilting where they once ran, the songs are part of the joyous affair between Bonnie and his fans. The energy of these shows is in the recordings along with the music -- for you to feed off of too."

Previous Page Index of Artists Next Page