Will Oldham

Artwork for Bonnie Prince Billy album 'We Are Together Again'

Bonnie Prince Billy “We Are Together Again”

March 5, 2026 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0

How community might just save you from yourself (and the world). “However dimly we perceive it, we are living through a change of worlds. The one we were born into is slipping away, reshaped and denuded […]

Bonnie “Prince” Billy “The Purple Bird”

January 29, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

Will Oldham goes all Nashville on us but maintains his outsider status with style. We’ve precious few mavericks left alive these days but Will Oldham certainly fits the bill with his lengthy and much varied discography […]

Bonnie “Prince” Billy announces the release of his ‘Nashville’ album The Purple Bird – Yeehaw!

October 30, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Bonnie “Prince” Billy aka Will Oldham has announced the release his new studio album “The Purple Bird” on January 31st 2025. Made in Nashville with producer David “Ferg” Ferguson and an ensemble of A-list session musicians, […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Will Oldham “Big Balls”

March 21, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

Last week it was Malvina Reynolds and her ‘Little Boxes’. This week it is something opposite – Will Oldham and his ‘Big Balls’. Now, Oldham is one true musical chameleon, from the changing personalities he records […]

Will Oldham and John Sayles – “Matewan”

March 16, 2022 Gordon Sharpe 0

A powerful tale of working life in the 1920’s Virginia coal mines. Americana goes to the movies, as Gordon Sharpe takes another of his occasional looks at films making good use of an Americana-based soundtrack… Film […]

Live Review: Joshua Ray Walker + Malin Pettersen, The Lower Third, London – 28th July 2026

August 6, 2026 0

It was a hot night in the West End, but thankfully the air conditioning was cool at Denmark Street’s Lower Third. This was Joshua Ray Walker’s first show in London since recovering from stage 3 bowel […]

Phil Odgers & John Kettle “The War is Over – The Songs of Phil Ochs Vol 2”

August 6, 2026 0

A respectful and traditional tribute to Phil Ochs. Volume 1 of this collaborative tribute by Phil Odgers of The Men They Couldn’t Hang and John Kettle of Merry Hell was birthed in the dark days of […]

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

August 6, 2026 0

For more than two decades, Freddy Trujillo has quietly built one of the most distinctive careers in American roots music. Whether anchoring the rhythm section as bassist for Richmond Fontaine and The Delines or as a […]

Bonnie Prince Billy “We Are Together Again”

Bonnie “Prince” Billy “The Purple Bird”

Bonnie “Prince” Billy announces the release of his ‘Nashville’ album The Purple Bird – Yeehaw!

AUK’s Chain Gang: Will Oldham “Big Balls”

Will Oldham and John Sayles – “Matewan”

Live Review: Joshua Ray Walker + Malin Pettersen, The Lower Third, London – 28th July 2026

Phil Odgers & John Kettle “The War is Over – The Songs of Phil Ochs Vol 2”

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

Video: Karl Bray “Marianne”