Biography

After stints as Palace, Palace Songs, and Palace Brothers, Will Oldham used the Bonnie "Prince" Billy moniker as the main outlet for his work. Oldham's style remained largely the same, pitting shambling and often sparse music against his creaky, world-weary voice and literate lyrics. With 1998's Black Dissimulation and the following year's I See a Darkness, the Bonnie "Prince" Billy name seemed to stick. Successive releases included 2001's Ease Down the Road, 2003's Master and Everyone, 2004's Bonnie "Prince" Billy Sings Greatest Palace Music (a set of polished re-recordings of songs from his back catalog), 2005's Superwolf, and 2006's The Letting Go. ~ Heather Phares & Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• A King At Night

• A Minor Place

• A Sucker's Evening

• Beast For Thee

• Beware Your Only Friend

• Black

• Black Captain

• Blokbuster

• Blood Embrace

• Buried Treasure

• Cold & Wet

• Cursed Sleep

• Cycles

• Death Final

• Death To Everyone

• Easy Does It

• God's Small Song

• Horses

• I Came To Hear The Music

• I Gave You

• I See A Darkness

• Lift Us Up

• Little Small Song

• Love Comes To Me

• Master & Everyone

• Maundering

• My Circle

• New Whaling

• No Match

• O Let It Be

• Ohio River Boat Song

• Rich Wife Full Of Happiness

• Roki For Now

• Teach Me To Bear You

• The Sounds Are Always Begging

• The Way

• The World's Greatest

• Then The Letting Go

• Troublesome Houses

• What's Missing Is

• Wolf Among Wolves

• You Don't Love Me

• You Want That Picture

Discography

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• Wolfroy Goes to Town

  Drag City

  2011

• The The Wonder Show of the World

  Drag City

  2010

• Funtown Comedown

  Sea Note / Drag City

  2009

• Beware

  Drag City

  2009

• Lie Down in the Light

  Drag City

  2008

• Wilding in the West

  Spunk Records

  2008

• Ask Forgiveness

  Drag City

  2007

• The Letting Go

  Drag City

  2006

• Summer in the Southeast

  Sea Note

  2005

• Superwolf

  Drag City / Palace/Drag City

  2005

• Sings Greatest Palace Music

  Drag City

  2004

• Master and Everyone

  Drag City

  2003

• Ease Down the Road

  Festival Records

  2001

• I See a Darkness

  Palace/Drag City / Palace Records

  1999