Sings Greatest Palace Music
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| Sings Greatest Palace Music | ||
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| Studio album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | ||
| Released | 2004 | |
| Label | Drag City | |
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| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy chronology | ||
| Master and Everyone , (2003) |
Sings Greatest Palace Music (2004) |
Superwolf (2005) |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Sings Greatest Palace Music is the name of a 2004 album released by Will Oldham under the moniker Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, on which Oldham covers songs of some of his older albums.
Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee with a large group of country session musicians the lo-fi nature of the songs' original recordings was abandoned in favour of a more conventionally "country" sound.
[edit] Track listing
- "New Partner"
- "Ohio River Boat Song"
- "Gulf Shores"
- "You Will Miss Me When I Burn"
- "The Brute Choir"
- "I Send My Love to You"
- "More Brother Rides"
- "Agnes, Queen of Sorrow"
- "Viva Ultra"
- "Pushkin"
- "Horses"
- "Riding"
- "West Palm Beach"
- "No More Workhorse Blues"
- "I Am a Cinematographer"
"Ohio River Boat Song" is an adaptation of the traditional Scottish "Loch Tay Boat Song", while "Horses" was written by Sally Timms of the Mekons, and appears on her 1988 solo album Somebody's Rockin' My Dreamboat. All other songs were written by Will Oldham.
