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Updated 08/05/21
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Matt Sweeney
& Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy Tour Dates:
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
13/06/21
Malibu, CA, Dry Gulch Ranch
Old tourdates:
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
14/05/20 Los Angeles, CA,
The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood (info) cancelled
15/05/20 Los Angeles, CA, The Masonic Lodge at
Hollywood (info) (w Emmett Kelly) cancelled
07/04/20 Miami, FL, Books
& Books (cancelled)
31/03/20 Jersey City, NJ, WFMU-FM interview pt.1
(listen)
07/04/20 Jersey City, NJ, WFMU-FM interview pt.2
Bonnie Prince Billy (with Emmett Kelly) / Jonathan Richman (with
Tommy Larkin)
05/03/20 Bloomington, IN, Buskirk-Chumley Theatre
06/03/20 Nelsonville, OH, Stuart’s Opera
House (check)
07/03/20 Washington, DC, Lincoln Theatre (review)
08/03/20 Philadelphia, PA, Union Transfer (check)
09/03/20 New York, NY, Town Hall (review)
11/03/20 New Haven, CT, College Street Music Hall
12/03/20 Providence, RI, Columbus Theatre (check)(cancelled)
13/03/20 Portland, ME, State Theatre (check)
14/03/20 Northampton, MA, Academy of Music
Theatre (cancelled)
14/03/20 Louisville, KY, ARTxFM show (check)
15/03/20 Rochester, NY, Montage Music Hall (w
Emmett Kelly & Crush the Junta) (cancelled)
•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)
•Coming up in July: an album by Three Queens In Mourning & Bonnie Prince Billy - Hello Sorrow Hello Joy (thanks frankie)(22/05/20)
Three Queens in Mourning is Alasdair Roberts, Jill O'Sullivan and Alex Neilson.
Three Queens in Mourning will play Bonnie Prince Billy songs.
Bonnie Prince Billy will deliver an original song and a cover
from all three of the Queens.
It will be out on Textile Records, listen here to a few songs (25/05/20)
•Lift Up Louisville is a community sourced song written and performed
by 20+ musicians with ties to Louisville, Kentucky.
Among them is Will Oldham
singing along. All proceeds go to One Louisville: Covid-19 Response Fund (28/04/20)
•Joan Shelley released Live at the Bomhard, a theater in Louisville. The band is
great and Bonnie
Prince Billy is singing
along on a bunch of songs (14/04/20)
•New Superwolf single is out: You'll Get Eaten, Too - all proceeds to support Superiority
Burger and Drag City staff relief funds (27/03/20)
•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)
•Listen to Wijzang from the new album, De Liefde Is De Eerste Wet, from Broeder Dieleman. It's a Dutch
translation of 2/15 from Get On Jolly by Bonny Billy & the Marquis de Tren
(30/05/20)
•Read an interview with Matt Sweeney. Amongst other items he speaks of the
collaboration with Will Oldham
(thanks ray)(28/05/20)
•Will
Oldham can be heard as
Bubble Man singing Mirror Man in episode 6 (Vulture With Honor)
of Duncan
Trussell’s animated
Netflix show The Midnight Gospel (thanks ray)(28/04/20)
•Already made in November 2019..; listen to the Apology podcast by Jesse Pearson with Will Oldham (thanks ray)(20/04/20)
•Louisville Academy of Music presents Songwriting with Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks
ray)(14/04/20)
•Listen on WFMU-FM
to part 2 of an interview with Will Oldham that took place on April 7
(thanks ray)(14/04/20)
•Listen on WFMU-FM
to part 1 of an interview with Will Oldham that took place on March 31.
Part 2 will take place on April 7 (thanks ray)(07/04/20)
•Bonnie
Prince Billy is one of the
artists who will play an on-line show for Band Together,
A benefit organisation raising funds for free food delivery to
those in need in the Santa Fe area (thanks ray)(07/04/20)
•You can listen to Bonnie Prince Billy who covers some songs to help us through this
Corona crisis (I guess), start here
(27/03/20)
•Max Porter talks to Max Liu about collaborating with Bonnie Prince Billy (27/03/20)