10 December 2009
Will Oldham compiled a list of his favorite music of 2009 for the current issue of Artforum. The best part was his introduction:
Actor, musician & my mustache style icon, you may know Oldham as Bonnie “Prince” Billy aka Palace Music aka Palace Brothers aka Palace Songs, et. cetera. At the risk of overstatement, his songwriting, his flexible method of reinterpreting his own work, and the complicated system of ethics & belief which play out in his lyrics could have made him a Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen for our age.
But he’s not that, and we live in a different kind of age.
Posted by Alec Hanley Bemis
Tags: Artforum, Bluegrass, Bob Dylan, Bonnie "Prince" Billie, Ethics, Johnny Cash, Kentucky, Leonard Cohen, Louisville, Nitches, Subculture, The Community Function, The Picket Line, Will Oldham