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Just ordered my self titled, self released LP from Reckless Records in Chicago.

super nintendo chalmers wrote:Just ordered my self titled, self released LP from Reckless Records in Chicago.

Simple Torture wrote:

super nintendo chalmers wrote:Just ordered my self titled, self released LP from Reckless Records in Chicago.

it sounds phenomenal

super nintendo chalmers wrote:Just ordered my self titled, self released LP from Reckless Records in Chicago.

Hope to pick up a copy when I see him in DC in November. Friday night with Bonnie Billy!

kreng wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

super nintendo chalmers wrote:Just ordered my self titled, self released LP from Reckless Records in Chicago.

it sounds phenomenal

You aren't kidding. If you like your Bonnie stripped and sparse, this is it. Very good, stuff.

This is pretty much the opposite of what the new self-titled record is, but it's awesome:

Kevin Davis wrote:This is pretty much the opposite of what the new self-titled record is, but it's awesome:

Love that 10", Tribulations is great too.

Saw Will last night at a small (less than 250 seat) theater on the Georgetown campus. Got my copy of the self-titled vinyl. He was taking requests and I got one in. Here's the setlist, from memory, in no particular order:

dle Hands are the Devils Playthings
Pushkin
Careless Love
Ater I made Love to You
Ease Down the Road
Grand Dark Feeling of Emptiness
Riding
You Will Miss Me When I Burn
West Palm Beach
Little Boy Blue
Nomadic Revery (All Around)
Another Day Full of Dread
Strange Form of Life
Wai
No Bad News
I Called You Back
Easy Does It (he played my called out request)
Master and Everyone
Three Questions
Hard Life
The Spotted Pig
I Send My Love to You

I would love to see him play Hard Life.


New vid of Black Captain he did for Greenpeace.

super nintendo chalmers wrote:I would love to see him play Hard Life.

I would too. That was one of my first favorite BPB tunes.

Hilarious.

super nintendo chalmers wrote:I would love to see him play Hard Life.


New vid of Black Captain he did for Greenpeace.

Awesome. He mentioned this during the show. He was surprisingly conversational. This was recorded on a dock in Annapolis.

I've been spinning the new album a ton the past few days. Stellar record. Fits comfortably between Days in the Wake and Master and Everyone when it comes to his Will-and-guitar albums.

I think I even like it better than those 2

It's better than Days in the Wake, to be sure. Time will tell if it beats out Master and Everyone for me. But it's damn good, regardless.

So, I mentioned in the "RM Top 25" thread that I made a 4CD Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "rarities" mix last year, and at least one RMer took moderate interest in it so I figured I'd dangle it over here. Calling it a 4CD mix is a little misleading, because the 4th disc is just the new self-titled record and another digital-only full-length release titled "Funtown Comedown"--a live-in-studio recording--crammed onto a single disc for convenience's sake. But the first three are a nice convenient way to listen to some of BPB's many, many scattered one-offs, EP's, B-sides, 7-inch singles, etc. It is not an exhaustive collection--not only is it virtually impossible to keep up with all of BPB's releases, but there were a number of things I could only find in really, really low bitrate mp3's which even for a non-audiophile like myself just doesn't hack it. As it stands I think the lowest quality files here are the mp3's I bought myself from Drag City's website (in the ballpark of 256kbps) and a few files I bought from iTunes. So if that sort of thing doesn't bother you this is a wonderful collection of songs that are a pain in the ass to track down one by one. Contents spoilered below:

Spoiler: show

CD1
1. I Am Drinking Again
2. Dreaming My Dreams
(“I Am Drinking Again” single, 1998)

3. Black Dissimulation
4. No Such As What I Want
(“Black Dissimulation” 7”, 1998)

5. I Confess
(from “Bonnie Prince Billy Sings the Songs of Kevin Coyne,” 1998)

6. One With the Birds
7. Southside of the World
(“One With the Birds” 7”, 1998)

8. When Thy Song Flows Through Me
(from "Blue Lotus Feet," 1998)

9. Let’s Start a Family (Blacks)
10. A Whorehouse is Any House
(“Let’s Start a Family” 7”, 1999)

11. Little Boy Blue
12. Little Boy Blue 2
13. Blue Boy
(“Little Boy Blue” 7”, 2000)

14. What’s Wrong With a Zoo
15. I Send My Love to You
16. Stablemates
(1999 Peel session, "Ease Down the Road" bonus disc, 2001)

17. Barcelona
("We All, Us Three, Shall Ride" 7", 2002)

18. Less of Me (Glen Campbell cover)
("Little Lost Blues" CD, 2006)

CD2
1. Happy Child
2. Forest Time
(2003 single)

3. His Hands
(iTunes single, 2006)

4. The Signifying Wolf
(from "Cursed Sleep" single, 2006)

5. Poor Shelter
(split 7" with Young Widows, 2009)

6. Stay
7. People Living
(“Stay”7”, 2009)

8. I’ll Love You (Forever and Ever)
9. In Spite of Ourselves
(Susanna and Bonny Billy tour EP, 2009)

10. Only a Dream
11. Love’s Old Sweet Song
12. Beautiful Dreamer
13. Kiss Me Again
14. Let Me Call You Sweetheart
15. Silver Threads Among the Gold
(“Among the Gold” 10”, with Cheyenne Mize, 2009)

CD3
1. How About Thank You
2. Hey Little
3. Champion
4. Face Him
("Chijimi" EP, 2009)

5. Midday
6. You Win
(BPB and the Cairo Gang “Midday” single, 2010)

7.Island Brothers
8. New Wonder
(BPB and the Cairo Gang “Island Brothers” 10”, 2011)

9. Must Be Blind
10. Life in Muscle
(BPB and Matt Sweeney “Must Be Blind” 10”, 2011)

11. God is Love
(“God is Love” 10” ,2011)

12. Black Ice Cream
(from “Quail and Dumplings” single, 2011)

13. Whipped
14. Out of Mind
(“B-Sides for ‘Time to Be Clear’” 7”, 2012)

15. Hummingbird Pt. 1
16. Tribulations
17. Because of Your Eyes (Band Version)
18. Hummingbird, Pt. 2
(“Hummingbird” 10”, 2012)

19. Christmas Eve Can Kill You
20. Walking the Dog
(BPB and Dawn McCarthy “Christmas Eve Can Kill You” 7”, 2012)

I'm keen.

Nice! "Funtown Comedown" was pressed on wax, too, but still no official CD release!

very nice.