The Purple Bird

by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

The Purple Bird cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 31 January 2025
  • Label: Drag City
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:35
  • Community rating: 3.41/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Will Oldham continues his incredibly prolific streak with a remarkably soft and entirely unadorned collection of alt-country compositions. Stripping back the arrangements to their bare essentials, the highly introspective project relies primarily on the emotive power of his distinctly weathered vocals.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk

Tracklist

  1. Turned To Dust (Rolling On) (4:04)
  2. London May (3:20)
  3. Tonight With The Dogs I'm Sleeping (3:39)
  4. Boise, Idaho (3:46)
  5. The Water's Fine (4:25)
  6. Sometimes It's Hard to Breathe (3:46)
  7. New Water (3:39)
  8. Guns Are For Cowards (3:03)
  9. Downstream (3:48)
  10. One of These Days (I'm Gonna Spend the Whole Night With You) (3:50)
  11. Is My Living in Vain? (3:14)
  12. Our Home (2:55)

Credits

  • Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - primary artist
  • Joey Miskulin - accordion, banjo
  • Will Oldham - acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Mark Howard - banjo, vocals
  • Steve Mackey - bass
  • Fred Eltringham - drums, percussion
  • Russ Pahl - electric guitar, steel guitar, pedal steel guitar, baritone guitar, jew's harp
  • Stuart Duncan - fiddle, acoustic guitar

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