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Updated 17/10/21
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Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney:
10/12/21 San Francisco, CA,
Castro Theater (tickets)
Bonnie Prince Billy (w. Matt Sweeney) and Jonathan Richman on the
road again after the cancelled tour from 2020, rescheduled for
the 2nd time:
01/03/22 Cleveland,
OH, Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art
02/03/22 Chicago,
IL, Constellation (early & late show)
03/03/22 Chicago,
IL, Constellation (early & late show)
04/03/22 Minneapolis,
MN, The Fitzgerald Theater
06/03/22 Iowa
City, IA, The Englert Theatre
07/03/22 Milwaukee,
WI, The Back Room at Colectivo (w/ Sam Wagster)
It seems
that these two shows are not replaced (yet?):
08/10/21 Madison, WI, Barrymore Theatre
13/10/21 Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie
Library Music Hall (w/ Jonathan Richman)
14/10/21 Blacksburg, VA, The Lyric Theatre
Old tourdates:
Matt Sweeney
& Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
03/09/21 Providence, RI, Columbus
Theatre (w/ Angel Bat Dawid)
04/09/21 Peterborough, NH
Peterborough Town Hall, Long Live The Thing
05/09/21 Bath, ME, Maine Martime
Museum (w/ Little Wings)
02/08/21 Los Angeles, CA, The
Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
07/06/21 Big Sur, CA, Henry
Miller Memorial Library
08/06/21 Big
Sur, CA, Henry Miller Memorial Library
09/06/21 Big
Sur, CA, Henry Miller Memorial Library
10/06/21 Sonoma,
CA, Gundlach Bundschu Winery
11/06/21 Sonoma,
CA, Gundlach Bundschu Winery
12/06/21
Ojai, CA, Ojay Retreat & Inn
13/06/21
Malibu, CA, Dry Gulch Ranch
16/06/21 Pioneertown, CA, Pappy
& Harriet's
02/12/20 8:00 pm Fitzgeralds 12 Streams of
Christmas, Song For Song: Jon Langford & Bonnie
"Prince" Billy (live online, check here for info)
Listen and look here
05/12/20 CatSong Festival, a virtual festival celebrating the music of
Yusuf/Cat Stevens featuring performances from a.o. Matt Sweeney
& Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks ray)
Listen and look here to the festival
10/06/20 Folk Medicine live stream benefit
concert for the people of the Amazon.
Listen and look back here
With Bonnie Prince Billy, Mariee Sioux, Devendra Banhart,
Santiparro and many more artists. More
info here
•Louisville musicians honor deceased uitarist Wink O’Bannon with new album af covers, read here and honor here. Participants include, among many others:
Louisvillians Will Oldham, Todd Brashear (Slint), Catherine Irwin and Anna Krippenstapel (Freakwater), Tara Jane O’Neil, David Grubbs
(thanks ray)(18/09/21)
•Bonnie
Prince Billy and Andrew Rinehart cover Friend Of The Devil by the Grateful Dead, listen here. From a 6 song EP called Have Fun Idiot!, coming out August 6 on sonaBLAST!
(thanks ray)(31/07/21)
•Ashley
Shadow announces new album Only The End, it contains a song featuring Bonnie ‘Prince’
Billy on vocals: Don't
Slow Me Down (thanks
ray)(25/07/21)
•Check this official live video by Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy with Emmett Kelly: My Body is My Own (25/06/21)
•Songs In The Key Of Death by Sad13 / Bonnie "Prince"
Billy & Nathan Salsburg will be released digitally (thanks
ray)(18/06/21)
•Matt
Sweeney & Bonnie
"Prince" Billy
released Watch What Happens: Bonnie & Sweeney + Joan Shelley & Nathan Salsburg cover each other on this new single
(thanks ray)(08/06/21)
•Nathan
Salsburg releases Psalms, a record of (mostly) Hebrew psalms. It comes out
on August 20 on No Quarter Records. Among others, Will Oldham is playing along (03/06/2021)
•Andrew Rinehart's forthcoming EP Have Fun Idiot (on sonaBLAST!) will be out due August 6. It feature a duet with
Bonnie
Prince Billy on a cover of
the Dead’s "Friend of the Devil"
Read more here (thanks ray) (27/05/21)
•Listen and look to We
Won't Go Quietly by Kira Skov and Bonnie “Prince” Billy (18/05/21)
•Listen and look at/to the latest Superwolves single Resist
The Urge, video directed
by Kevin "Spanky" Long and Atiba (28/04/21)
•Already released in 2020: Savory (Jawbox cover) with C.J. Boyd + Will Oldham
and the Quarantaine Choir. From the compilation Safe In Sound on Joyful Noise Recordings (25/04/21)
•Listen to a new duet with Bonnie Prince Billy from the forthcoming album Spirit Tree by Kira Skov: Some Kind of Lovers (24/04/21)
•Broeder
Dieleman & Bonnie Prince Billy release a split single on May 21: Love
Is The First Law / There Are Worms In Your Circle. Information here and here (09/04/21)
•No Quarter
released a single sided 12" with etching: Three Feral Pieces by Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Nathan Salsburg,
Max Porter. For more
information check here (02/04/21)
•Listen and look at/to Matt Sweeney & Bonnie
"Prince" Billy playing Only
Someone Running
(Official Live Performance) (25/03/21)
•Listen and look at/to the latest Superwolves single My
Blue Suit, video
directed by Geoff McFetridge (23/03/21)
•Released March 4: She Is My Everything by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by John Prine featuring Sir Richard Bishop (05/03/21)
Check the video by Jade Healy. This is the last song in the
serie. It was a blast.
•Released February 26: I Want To Go To The Beach by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by Iggy Pop featuring Cooper Crain (26/02/21)
Check the video by Jacob Forman
•Released February 19: The Wild Kindness by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by David Berman featuring Cassie Berman (20/02/21)
Check the video by Ben Berman
•Matt Sweeney & Bonnie Prince Billy announce a new album: Superwolves. Look at the new video of the beastly duo Hall
of Death (09/02/21)
•Released February 5, a new song by Kira Skov & Bonnie Prince Billy: We Won't Go Quietly (05/02/21)
•Released February 1: The Night of Santiago by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by Leonard Cohen featuring David Grubbs (01/02/21)
Check the video by Bill Ross & Turner Ross
•Released January 25: Arise, Therefore by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by Will Oldham featuring Six Organs of Admittance (25/01/21)
Check the video by David Lowery
•Released January 20: Night Rider's Lament by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by Mike Burton featuring Cory Hanson (22/01/21)
Check the video by Augustine Frizzell
•Look here at the video of Night Light by Thee Conductor, the second song with Bonnie Prince
Billy from his album Spirit Of A Ghost, to be released today (22/01/21)
•Take a look at the
video accompanying Stoic
by Bob
Arellano (16/01/21)
•Released January 15: Lost in Love by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by Air Supply featuring Emmett Kelly (16/01/21)
Check the video by Hanly Banks Callahan
•Released January 6: Miracles by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by Johnnie Frierson featuring Ty Segall (09/01/21)
Also available on split 7" containing the cover and the original
song. Check the video by Sai Selvarajan
•Released January 1: Rooftop Garden by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by Lou Reed featuring Giorgios Xylouris (02/01/21)
Check the video by Kris Rey
•To be released on February 5: Last Poems by Bob Arellano.
Musical settings for the posthumous poetry of D.H. Lawrence with
singing contributions by Will Oldham.
Listen to Stoic (feauring Will Oldham)
here (31/12/20)
•Released December 21: I've Been The One by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by Lowell George featuring Meg Baird (21/12/20)
Here's the video by Gretal Zozula
•Released December 15: Sea Song by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by Robert Wyatt featuring Mick Turner (15/12/20)
Take a look at the video by Dave Bryant
•Released December 12: Letters Sung To Friends and Little Bird by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by Jerry Jeff Walker featuring Nathan Salsburg (15/12/20)
•Released December 11: I Love You
by Bonnie
Prince Billy & Bill Callahan, written by Jerry Jeff Walker featuring David Pajo (11/12/20)
•Listen and look to Thee Conductor w/ Bonnie 'Prince' Billy playing Tsk,
tsk. From the
forthcoming album Spirit of a Ghost tbr January 22 on
Sixgunlover Records and Spaceflight Records (thans ray)(11/12/20)
•Take a look at the new video for Make
Worry For Me and read here about it (thanks ray)(11/12/20)
•Released December 3: Our Anniversary by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan
(earlier released on Supper by Smog) featuring Dead Rider (08/12/20)
Video by Andrew Droz Palermo
•Make
Worry For Me by Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy now available for everyone, look here
and buy here (thanks Leo F.)(22/11/20)
•Released November 15: Deacon Blues by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by Steely Dan featuring Bill McKay (thanks ray)(17/11/20)
Video by Michael Tully
•On friday November 6, some Domino customers received a
flexi disc with a new Superwolf
song Make
Worry For Me. A message
says: "watch out for superwolves" (thanks
Matthew)(08/11/20)
•Released October 29: Wish You Were Gay by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by Billie Eilish featuring Sean O'Hagan (30/10/20)
•Released October 21: Red Tailed Hawk by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
featuring Matt
Kinsey (22/10/20)
Video by James M. Johnston
•Released earlier this year: the soundtrack album for
Netflix’s ‘The Midnight Gospel’, featuring Will Oldham singing on Mirror Man (22/10/20)
•Released October 16: I've Made Up My Mind by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
featuring Alasdair
Roberts (16/10/20)
•To be released October 15: For You, a song by Carly Johnson Feat. Bonnie "Prince"
Billy. On SonaBLAST!
Records (thanks
John)(12/10/20)
•Released October 9: Od'd In Denver (a song by Hank Williams Jr.) by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan, featuring Matt Sweeney.
Check the video
(12/10/20)
•Also released on October 2: Row by Dawn Landes. Among other singers, Will Oldham sings on it, at least on Second Time Around (thanks Jeff)(12/10/20)
•Released on October 2: Kin Campaigns. A compilation of covers, each supporting a
progressive candidate running for US Congress in November.
Curated by C.J. Boyd and featuring a tapestry of artists, among them Bonnie Prince Billy playing a cover of Cat Power and Will Oldham singing along on a cover from Jawbox
(03/10/20)
•Bill
Callahan and Bonnie Prince Billy released a Cat Stevens cover of Blackness Of The Night featuring Azita (thanks John)(02/10/20)
•A new Will
Oldham song will appear on
the soundtrack album of Once Upon A River. Always Bound can be heard here. To be released October 23 (18/09/20)
•Three
Queens In Mourning & Bonnie Prince Billy - Hello Sorrow Hello Joy is available now (02/07/20)
•Just released: Universal Prayer by Golden Spine.
Bonnie
Prince Billy (amongst
others) sings along on two songs on the album (thanks
Charles)(28/05/20)
•Listen to When I'm President, a poem by Shannon Burns read by Will Oldham from the Leveza
Radio site (thanks
Sascha)(17/10/21)
•Read here The Guest List: Superwolves: Matt Sweeney and Will Oldham
tell about the books they like (12/10/21)
•Listen to episode #16, the last one of a series on the music of Will Oldham on Concertzender (12/10/21)
•Read here about ‘Dans le Chambre du Sultan’, the new
film from Javier
Rebollo, it is set to start
shooting in may, and will feature Will Oldham - apparently horse riding and singing in Arabic
(thanks ray)(25/09/21)
•The movie Hands That Bind by Kyle Armstrong
will be screening at the Calgary International Film Festival. Will Oldham
play barkeep (25/09/21)
•The
Everly Brothers documentary Harmonies from Heaven can be watched on BBC 4: starring among others Will Oldham (25/09/21)
•Listen to the Low Profile Podcast #44 with Sean O'Hagan. Find out he's working on an album with Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks John)(13/09/21)
•Bob
Arellano released a new old
album, check here: Havanarama / Havana Club (13/09/21)
•Coming out soon: the self-titled album by Feast Of Smoke. That is Amber and Paul Oldham,
with help a.o. from Jeremy Gagon, Neil Hagerty and George
Wethington (13/09/21)
•Listen to New Partner re-imagined by Horse Apples (13/09/21)
•Listen to episode #14 and episode #15 of a series on the music of Will Oldham on Concertzender (02/09/21)
•Here's an interview with Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy recorded August 7 on TUSK TV (thanks
frankie)(20/08/21)
•Read here: Maxwell’s: An Oral History, with contributions by Will Oldham, Matt Sweeney and many others (20/08/21)
•Check out the earlier directors cut of Scout Niblett
& Will
Oldham's song Kiss (thanks
Thaddeus)(20/08/21)
•The Superwolves Matt Sweeney
& Bonnie
'Prince' Billy take over the
airwaves in an hour long NTS radio show (thanks ray)(25/07/21)
•Listen to Bed Is For Sleeping covered by Horse Apples (13/07/21)
•New on the Superwolves
merchtable: a Not Fooling poster (13/07/21)
Also: check out this doubledecker bus
•Listen to episode # 13 of a series on the music of Will Oldham on Concertzender (13/07/21)
•David Ferguson releases video, directed by Will Oldham for his Guy Clark cover Boats To Build,
off his upcoming solo LP, read the story behind it here and look at the video
here (thanks
ray)(02/07/21)
•Rough Trade presents a live Online Q&A with Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy via Zoom joined by special guest host TBA
(for UK peeps only) (thanks Dan)(17/06/21)
•Here's an interview with Will Oldham & Matt Sweeney
in the LA Times (thanks ray)(17/06/21)
•Bonnie
“Prince” Billy
will have an on-line conversation with Mairi Campbell from Scotland as part of scotland's 'folk film gathering' on Thursday 01/07/21 at 7pm (thanks
ray)(15/06/21)
•Check out Matt Sweeney
& Bonnie
"Prince" Billy on Office
Hours Live at about 42
minutes in (15/06/21)
•Listen to episode #12 of a series on the music of Will Oldham on Concertzender (08/06/21)
•Look and listen to Thee Superwolves' Shorty's Ark tutorial (08/06/21)
•From June 16 you van listen to the Murder Ballad Podcast
‘Songs
In The Key Of Death’
From Nevermind Media Set With Songs From Will Oldham & SAD13
Read about it here and here (thanks ray)(03/06/2021)
•A geographical guide to Superwolves: Will Oldham and
Matt Sweeney guide us through the cities that have
defined their lives and careers (thanks ray)(29/05/21)
•Get a set of Kentucky playing cards and check who's on the 2 of hearts
(29/05/21)
•Sparce and Spindly by Yawning Chasm
contains a Palace
Brothers cover: Ohio River
Boat Song (29/05/21)
•David
Ferguson who recorded and
played with Bonnie Prince Billy will release a new record in
September through Fat Possum: Nashville No More (29/05/21)
•Listen to Episode 101 of Broken Records podcast: Superwolves: Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney,
hosted by Rick
Rubin (thanks
Aldwin)(18/05/21)
•Listen to episode #11 of a series on the music of Will Oldham on Concertzender (08/05/21)
•The Guide to Films About Music, by Musicians: Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney take you on a cinematic journey (07/05/21)
Check out the playlist Will Oldham
and Matt
Sweeney made for the Italian
Rolling Stone (07/05/21)
•Listen to a live version of Make Worry For Me, recorded for the BBC (02/05/21)
•Listen to Just The Two Of Us: Der exklusive Zündfunk Gästemix von Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney (28/04/21)
•Already released October last year on Dust-to-Digital: a box set containing the flip side of 78-rpm
records that Harry
Smith included on The
Anthology Of American Folk Music.
It has liner note contributions by more than 80 artists, writers,
and musicians that have been inspired by Harry Smith’s work
including Will
Oldham (on one song) and
many others (28/04/21)
•Read Return Of The Superwolves by Chris Deville
on Stereogum (23/04/21)
•Matt Sweeney & Will Oldham on Magic Sam – 1957-1966 West Side Guitar (23/04/21)
•Read about Superwolves
on FolkRadio (23/04/21)
•Check out Emmett Kelly's
debut album The Feast of Brass Snakes. Out on HaHa (thanks John)(14/04/21)
•Check out What's On Bonnie "Prince" Billy's shelf
here. Via
Drag City's Instagram you can also see What's on Matt Sweeney's shelf (09/04/21)
•Listen to episode #10 of a series on the music of Will Oldham on Concertzender (09/04/21)
•New limited formats of Superwolves are available to buy from Domino
Mart: Make
Coffee For Me: bean coffee
from Brazil selected by Matt Sweeney and
Make Worry
For Tea – a 75g
Rose/Basil infusion specially created by Bonnie
“Prince” Billy made by The Old Tea House, Covent Garden
(31/03/21)
•Read Howl Like a Superwolf by Chris Heath
in GQ Magazine (25/03/21)
•Will
Large has written
"Affects, indexes and signs Will Oldham and the authenticity
of the voice in popular music" Read here (30/03/21)
•Listen to the Dutch Concertzender, to part 9 of a serie on the music of Will Oldham (07/03/21)
•Check this new Alan Licht
album: Three Chords and a Sword: Solo Cover Versions 1988-2020, it
contains a great version of Stabe Will
(05/03/21)
•Here's footage of a recently found 1998 gig in Annadale, NY at
the Bard College by Will Oldham
and the Anomoanon (thanks Tonnie)(05/03/21)
•Listen to Week-End Mixtape #20: Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney
(28/02/21)
•Check out Brothers of the Fang: From Pups to
Superwolves (19/02/21)
•Read here what Bob Arellano
has to say about his just released album Last Poems and what roll Will Oldham had in it (07/02/21)
•Listen to the Dutch Concertzender, to part 8 of a serie on the music of Will Oldham (31/01/21)
•Listen to Ep. #591: Matt Sweeney
talking about Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Superwolf,
Chavez, Gone Glimmering and more (09/01/21)
•Look at Our Library about the Louisville Library featuring Will Oldham as The Librarian and singing a Phil Ochs song (thanks Sascha)(16/10/20)
•Saturday Keynote Panel: Beautiful Processes for Ugly Times.
Dealing with our Musical Lives in 2020.
Will Oldham, Jessica Linker,
RMLLW2LLZ, & Jon Langford of the Mekons. Saturday, October 10th at 5 PM. Register
here (04/10/20)
•The Dutch Concertzender is making a series of programs on the music of Will Oldham. There are already 5 parts now. Start here to listen (04/10/20)
•Listen to the podcast One Nation Under Whisky, Season 4, Ep 16 of 23 September: Whisky and Music with Will Oldham (thanks ray)(26/09/20)
•On October 13 Mike Ayers's book One Last Song: Conversations on Life,
Death, and Music will be
released. Mike Ayers talks to musicians about what piece of music
they
want to accompany them on their journey to the afterlife. Will Oldham is one of the musicians who is
interviewed (thanks ray)(05/09/20)
•Listen to a new Bonnie Prince Billy demosong on The Deep End with Joey Mudd (show #334, around minute 20) (12/08/20)
•Here's a tribute to Viva Last Blues from France: A Decouvrir Absolument Hors Serie #15 -
Tribute To Palace
(thanks gdp)(12/08/20)
•Listen to a review of New Partner
on the episode "The Hall of Presidents & New Partner" of The Anthropocene Reviewed, from
March 28 2019 (thanks Jeff)(02/08/20)
•Here's an interview in Portugese with Will Oldham. Will mentions a duet album with Bill Callahan that they're working on (12/07/20)
•Dum Drugs plays a cover of No
More Workhorse Blues
(thank Ryan)(12/07/20)
•Check this Bonnie Trailer by Deeper Into Movies. Which can be seen on July 10, 11, 12
through ParadiseTV
(02/07/20)