Posts Tagged: will oldham
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The True Life Story Of Bonnie (Or "Bonny") "Prince" Billy

"Bonny’s parents performed intercourse merely once, but it was deeply tantric, lasting so long they conceived and birthed 3 children during the single act. Bonny was born Siamese twins, conjoined at every part of the body—overlapped perfectly on top of one another so he looked like just one guy. During puberty, Bonny’s Other began to itch, so he underwent a procedure to be surgically separated from himself, cell by cell. When doctors attempted to reassemble the extracted Boniface, they wound up with just two frogs, a jaybird, and a monkey holding a banjo. It was at this point he began to noodle around with music." —I do not like [...]

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Will Oldham Sings "The World's Greatest" And Interviews R. Kelly

"OLDHAM: I love that song 'The World’s Greatest' as well. We perform that song onstage sometimes. We do sort of like a country version of it.

KELLY: Yeah? I would love to hear that. You know, I took the Queen Mary to Europe once because I didn’t want to get on a plane . . .

OLDHAM: Because planes make you nervous?" —Have you read Will "Bonnie Prince Billy" Oldham interviewing R. Kelly in the new Interview magazine yet? If not, definitely do. It is an amazing and wonderful conversation about music and theater and boats and Africa and people and love and pain and talent and celebrity [...]

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Will Oldham Stars In Very Funny Long-Form Beer Commercial

This video is eleven minutes and five seconds long. But it is very much worth that amount of your day. It is essentially a commercial for Dogfish Head beer, which people who like beer with strong beer flavor seem to like a lot. (I prefer beer than tastes more like water myself, but I am a philistine from New Jersey.) But the video comprises three of the my favorite things in the world: Louisville singer/songwriter Will "Bonnie Prince Billy" Oldham, footage of industrial processing plant machinery, and jokes about robots taking over the world from humans. It's pretty great, have a look.