The follow-up to Master And Everyone (2003) by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy is not really a new record. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy is one of the many names of lo-fi artist Will Oldham, who also operated under the names Palace, Palace Brothers, Palace Music and Palace Songs. And now let it be the music from these projects that he re-performs under the name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy on the CD Sings Greatest Palace
… Music. Old and well-known material, performed again with the help of various session musicians from Nashville. According to many, an extremely strange step for someone so averse to the mainstream, and also difficult to understand. Not much lo-fi, but pedal steel, fiddle and mandolin. It is up to the listener to judge whether in the past everything was indeed better or whether Oldham may have taken a new step forward in his impressive career. (IV)more
