Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The Letting Go

This entry was posted by owl and bear staff on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 at 1:39 pm.

2006, Drag City

The music is soft, the vocals are hushed, and you can almost hear the tears trickling down this poor, sad bastard’s beard.

Will “Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy” Oldham does what he does, and damn it, he does it well. Good ol’ Will’s been delivering the mournful appalachian music for years now, and for some reason, it never gets old. Oldham spices it up with a few things the old timers never had, like electric geetar and “Eleanor Rigby”-esque strings, but he basically doen’t try to change what was right in the first place, which makes every album a familiar surprise.

On The Letting Go, Oldham keeps it lugubrious, morose, and lovely for all of us lovesick sons of bitches.

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