Bonnie Prince Billy Will Oldham, aka Bonnie Princ…
Bonnie Prince Billy
Will Oldham, aka Bonnie Prince Billy, has new LP out tomorrow, and it�s a corker. Despite all the excessively-worded reviews about redneck darkness, Ease Down the Road is an uplifting collection of 12 even songs. On first listen, because of the evenness, it is as flat as the 1996 masterpiece Arise Therefore. However, there�s more to it than banjos, brute choirs in down-homey singalongs and the familiar cracked-open voice of the man himself. But what is it?
The first song �May it always be� is a love letter to his special lady, with a cheesy gee-tar solo added for good measure, while the last � �Rich Wife Full of Happiness� - is a celebration of carnality, including the memorable lines: �I licked you dry until you are laughing. My finger�s in your behind� and �I woke up fat and almost unhappy. But the bigger the laugh, the bigger the belly.�
It�s more than to be going on with, and I must be very happy.
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