Lie Down In the Light

Performer: Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Distributor: Revolver USA Distribution

Notes: While the 2006 Bonnie "Prince" Billy album THE LETTING GO was full of intense, spooky art-folk that found Will Oldham (Billy) accompanied by the ghostly voice of Faun Fables singer Dawn McCarthy, the appropriately titled LIE DOWN IN THE LIGHT lets the sunshine in. Oldham's elliptical wordplay retains its mysterious magic, but the settings for the majority of the tunes are warm, amiable country-folk, clip-clopping along at a friendly pace and bearing a casual front-porch atmosphere. Oldham's got another female singing partner here, but this time it's Ashley Webber of the Canadian band The Organ, and their vocal exchanges have more of a Conway Twitty-and-Loretta Lynn-gone-indie-folk feel.

The Wire (p.45) - "The literary quality of his words is sustained at an impossibly high level -- there isn't a dud or 'squeezed to fit' line here..." Mojo (Publisher) (p.114) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'So Everyone' is classic Oldham territory: a love song that's concurrently dirty, funny, romantic, self-centred and tragic..."

One of several monikers employed by country maverick Will Oldham, Bonnie "Prince" Billy became the artist's favored voice during the late 1990s and into the 2000s. The debut full-length I SEE A DARKNESS was hailed as one of Oldham's finest releases, augmenting the Appalachian gothic of his earlier work with additional instrumentation. In the always enigmatic artist threw fans a delightful curveball with 2004's SINGS GREATEST PALACE MUSIC, on which the singer-songwriter revisited his own back catalogue with a group of Nashville session musicians. As the 2000s rolled on, the Bonnie sobriquet would come to represent Oldham at perhaps his most prolific and challenging; he would collaborate with post-rock act Tortoise, cover a broad range of artists from Danzig to Bjork, and release several stunning original full-lengths.

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