Royal News
The news page: I
try to update this page as soon as I can when there's news.
Anyone who has some news about Will Oldham or related bands can
send it to me and I'll add it.
Updated 18/01/22
Old
news
check for updates, some dates disappeared from the Drag City Tours page, I have marked them
grey for now:
Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney
24/02/22 Newport, KY, Southgate
House
26/02/22 West Newark, OH, Ballroom
at 31 (all shows w/ Powers/Rolin Duo)
23/02/22
Buffalo, NY, The Ninth Ward (cancelled)
25/02/22
Northampton, MA, Academy of Music Theatre (cancelled)
26/02/22 Ithaca, NY, Hangar Theatre (cancelled)
27/02/22 Pittsburgh, PA, The
Warhol at Carnegie Lecture
28/02/22 Kalamazoo,
MI, Bell's Eccentric Café
01/03/22
Cleveland, OH, Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art
(cancelled)
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 (cancelled)
05/03/22
Omaha, NE, The Waiting Room (w/ Emmett Kelly)
06/03/22
Iowa City, IA, The Englert Theatre (w/ Jonathan Richman)
(cancelled)
07/03/22 Milwaukee,
WI, The Back Room at Colectivo (w/ Sam Wagster)
18/04/22
Denver, CO, Mission Ballroom
19/04/22
Colorado Springs, CO, The Black Sheep
20/04/22 Albequerque,
MN, El Rey Theatre (last 3 show w/ Sleep)
Old tourdates:
Bonnie
Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney, w Dave Pajo & Emmett Kelly:
17/12/21 Tivoli NY, Kaatsbaan
Cultural Park Theatre
18/12/21 Tivoli NY, Kaatsbaan
Cultural Park Theatre
19/12/21 Tivoli NY, Kaatsbaan
Cultural Park Theatre
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
10/12/21 San Francisco, CA,
Castro Theater (tickets)
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
•In May a collaborative meeting between singer/songwriter Will Oldham and graphic artist Lori Damiano comes out as a book on Drag City:
Shorty's Ark illustrates a tale that launches from the
biblical story of Noah, emerging as a green earth-affirmative
examination
of a wild variety of species to engage young minds with its
unusual choices (07/01/22)
•Released November 20: Happy Hollerdays 2021 - A Special Benefit
Album for Team West Kentucky Tornado Relief Fund. Containing a Bonnie Prince Billy cover of a Ramones song (22/12/21)(thanks Sascha)
Amongst the other contributors are Nathan Salsburg, Rachel
Grimes, Joan Shelley, Teddy Abrahams, Cheyenne Mize. Also listen
to the last track!
•Released November 8: Kidnapped by Neptune by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan,
written by Scout Niblett featuring Hamerkop (08/11/21)
Check the video by Chad Blevins
•To be released 10-12-2021: Blind Date Party by Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan. The album of the earlier released coverversions
now on vinyl, CD and MC (08/11/21)
•Bonnie
Prince Billy sings along on Love Farewell on the upcoming Jake Xerxes Fussell album. Out January 21 on Paradise Of Bachelors (thanks Léon)(01/11/22)
•Not available online and at records stores but only if you
sign up at PBS Radio: Best of Studio 5 Live: 20 Years of Easey Street download compilation.
Contains a live version of Grand Dark Feeling of Emptiness by Bonnie Prince Billy (thanks Sasacha)(25/10/21)
•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
•Bill
Callahan and Will Oldham discuss their collaborative album, read here(18/01/22)
•Bill
Callahan and
Bonnie
Prince Billy merge their
musical minds, by Amanda Petrusich read here (thanks ray)(18/01/22)
•Take a look to a recorded
live stream from Tim Heidecker with Bill Callahan and Will Oldham, that took place on January 6, 2022 (07/01/22)
•Read and listen to an interview with Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney on WAMC (thanks ray)(14/12/21)
•Wildsam Announces New Guide: Kentucky Bourbon Country. Local contributors include, among many
others, singer-songwriter Will Oldham
(thanks ray)(04/12/21)
•The 20th-anniversary version of Fish
& Crabs is available
on red vinyl, now directly from Bob Arellano.
Inner Dunes, the recordlabel where it was released on in 2019 has
disappeared, but Bob saved some copies.
As extra track on the vinyl there's an unreleased live version of
West Palm
Beach sung by Bob Arrellano and Will Oldham, recorded in 2017.
The digital version now has 3 bonus tracks from that period, with
Will Oldham on organ and slideguitar. Check here (27/11/21).
•Jonathan
Richman picks 10 favourite
tracks for a weekend playlist, asked by Will Oldham to do so (thanks ray)(08/11/21)
•The band Springtime with Jim White, Gareth Liddiard and Chris Abrahams will release their self-titled debut album on November 5. It contains a cover of West Palm Beach (25/10/21)
•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)