Growing Up
* Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: Love Comes To Me (6.0 mb) | Strange Form Of Life (5.5 mb) | Lay And Love (5.0 mb)
From The Letting Go : Drag City : CD420
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the bands that I’ve grown up with. Not necessarily the bands that I started listening to when I was in middle school (mostly hair-metal ballads!!), but the musicians that have stayed with me through the ages, through the good times and the bad times. And one artist that definitely falls into this category is Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. Well, not just Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, but Palace, Palace Music, Palace Songs or whatever else Will Oldham chose to call himself. Ever since discovering his music at the start of college, Will Oldham has been a huge part of my life for 10+ years and my interest in him hasn’t dwindled one bit.
Starting out as an actor, Will Oldham quickly grew disenchanted with the movie industry and left acting in 1989 (he’s since acted in a couple more movies). Retiring to pursue some music, he released the down home, back porch, hillbilly classic, There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You. And since then, he’s been recording under various monikers, eventually settling on Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.
The Letting Go, his latest album, is another stone-cold classic that grabbed my attention and never let go.
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