PALACE Viva Last Blues LP original will oldham sebadoh

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PALACE Viva Last Blues LP original
1995 Palace/Drag City (PR4/DC65) Both Vinyl and Sleeve are in Nm condition. Viva Last Blues is an album by Palace Music, featuring Will Oldham on vocals and guitar. The album was recorded by Steve Albini and was released in 1995 on Drag City. The artwork is by Dianne Bellino (cover drawing) and Cynthia Kirkwood (painting).
The album was listed as #60 on Pitchfork Media's "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s".
[edit] Track listing
    1.    "More Brother Rides" – 3:18
    2.    "Viva Ultra" – 3:18
    3.    "The Brute Choir" – 2:43
    4.    "The Mountain Low" – 2:44
    5.    "Tonight's Decision (And Hereafter)" – 4:10
    6.    "Work Hard/Play Hard" – 2:50
    7.    "New Partner" – 3:54
    8.    "Cat's Blues" – 3:18
    9.    "We All, Us Three, Will Ride" – 2:56
    10.    "Old Jerusalem" – 2:16
[edit] UK limited edition bonus 7"
    1.    "Black/Rich Tune" – 3:19
    2.    "You Have Cum..." (alt. version) – 2:51
[edit] Personnel
    •    Liam Hayes – piano and organ
    •    Jason Loewenstein – drums and additional singing
    •    Ned Oldham – bass, slide guitar, and additional singing
    •    Will Oldham - singing and guitar
    •    Bryan Rich – lead guitar
 Will Oldham (born December 24, 1970), better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded under variations of the Palace name, including the Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music. After releasing material under his own name, he adopted the "Bonnie 'Prince' Billy" moniker for the majority of his output since 1998.

Oldham is known for his "do-it-yourself punk aesthetic and blunt honesty,"[1] and his music has been likened to Americana, folk, roots, country, punk, and indie rock. He has been called an "Appalachian post-punk solipsist",[1] with a voice that has been described as "a fragile sort-of warble frittering around haunted melodies in the American folk or country tradition."[1]
Will Oldham first performed and recorded under various permutations of the Palace name, including Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, Palace Music, and simply Palace. Regarding the name changes during this period (1993–1997), Oldham said:
“
Well, I guess the idea is that when you have a name of a group or an artist, then you expect that the next record, if it has the same name, should be the same group of people playing on it. And I just thought we were making a different kind of record each time, with different people, and different themes, and different sounds. So I thought it was important to call it something different so that people would be aware of the differences.[2]
”
Beginning in 1998, Oldham has primarily used the moniker Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, which draws inspiration from several sources:
“
Yeah, the name has so many different references that it could almost have a life of its own. Bonnie Prince Charlie has such a beautiful ring to it, and I was very conscious of appropriating that mellifluous sound. And I was also thinking about the name Nat King Cole. But it wasn't until later, and this may have been subconscious, that I remembered that Billy the Kid was William Bonney or Billy Bonney.[2]
”
Oldham has explained that "the primary purpose of the pseudonym is to allow both the audience and the performer to have a relationship with the performer that is valid and unbreakable."[3]
[edit] Discography
Main article: Will Oldham discography
    •    There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You – Palace Brothers (1993)
    •    Days in the Wake – Palace Brothers (1994)
    •    Viva Last Blues – Palace Music (1995)
    •    Arise Therefore – Palace Music (1996)
    •    Joya – Will Oldham (1997)
    •    I See a Darkness – Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (1999)
    •    Ease Down the Road – Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (2001)
    •    Master and Everyone – Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (2003)
    •    Sings Greatest Palace Music – Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (2004)
    •    Superwolf – Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (2005)
    •    Summer in the Southeast - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (2005)
    •    The Brave and the Bold – Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (2006)
    •    The Letting Go – Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (2006)
    •    Wai Notes – Dawn McCarthy and Bonny Billy (2007)
    •    Wilding in the West – Bonnie "Prince" Billy (2007)
    •    Lie Down in the Light – Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (2008)
    •    Is It The Sea? – Bonnie 'Prince' Billy with Harem Scarem and Alex Neilson (2008)
    •    Beware - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (2009)
    •    Funtown Comedown - Bonny Billy and the Picket Line (2009)
    •    The Wonder Show of the World - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and the Cairo Gang (2010)
[edit] Response
Some of his albums, such as There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You (1993),[4] Viva Last Blues (1995),[5] and I See a Darkness (1999),[6][7][8] have appeared on greatest albums lists.
He is mentioned in the lyrics of the Biffy Clyro song "Saturday Superhouse" and is the main character in the song "Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror" by New York anti-folk artist Jeffrey Lewis.
Johnny Cash recorded a version of "I See a Darkness" on his American Recordings disc, American III: Solitary Man (2000). Oldham provided backing vocals.
Steve Adey also covered "I See a Darkness" on his 2006 LP All Things Real.
Mark Kozelek recorded a version of Oldham's "New Partner" on his 2008 disc, The Finally LP.
Katatonia covered "Oh How I Enjoy the Light" on their 2001 EP Tonight's Music.
In 2009 Mark Lanegan and Soulsavers recorded a cover version of "You Will Miss Me When I Burn". The release is a split single, backed with the Lanegan penned "Sunrise" featuring vocals by Oldham.
[edit] Film
Will Oldham began his acting career at the age of 17, when he portrayed a teen preacher in John Sayles's film about an Appalachian mining community, Matewan (1987). Oldham moved to Hollywood to pursue acting in the late 1980s,[9] and landed roles in a couple of films. However, he quickly became disillusioned with the film industry and quit in 1989.[10] He has since had several minor roles in independent films, such as Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), Junebug (2005), and The Guatemalan Handshake (2006). Oldham took a lead role in Old Joy, which was featured at SXSW XX and opened at New York's Film Forum on September 20, 2006. Will Oldham also played the role of a preacher in the "Horse Apples" special of WonderShowzen in series 2 of the show. In 2009, he has been the narrator of "Madam and Little Boy", a documentary film about atomic weapons directed by Swedish artist Magnus Bärtås. In 2010, Oldham had a small part in Jackass 3D as a gorilla trainer. Oldham revealed that he had to write a theme song in the style of a Saturday morning cartoon show for filmmaker Lance Bangs' life to get the role.[11]
[edit] Filmography
    •    Matewan (1987), directed by John Sayles
    •    Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure (1989) (TV movie)
    •    Thousand Pieces of Gold (1991)
    •    Elysian Fields (1993)
    •    Radiation (1998)
    •    Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) (uncredited role), directed by Harmony Korine
    •    Slitch (2003), directed by Dianne Bellino
    •    Tripping with Caveh (2004), directed by Caveh Zahedi
    •    Junebug (2005)
    •    The Guatemalan Handshake (2006)
    •    Old Joy (2006)
    •    Wendy and Lucy (2008)
    •    Madam and Little Boy (2009)
    •    Jackass 3D (2010)
[edit] Photography
Will Oldham shot the black-and-white cover photograph of Slint's 1991 album Spiderland. The photo depicts members of the band treading water in the lake of an abandoned quarry.[12]
Oldham also featured as guest aesthetic designer for the North American literary magazine Zoetrope All Story (vol 11, no 1) in 2007. In a note contained in the issue, he jokes that it would be "really magnificent to imagine this issue as a cocktail party at which all of the contributors, word and image, are present. add a bowl of keys and some mushroom cookies and i am there. [sic]"…
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