New Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "You Can't Hurt Me Now" (Live) & Beware Album Art

A couple weeks ago Kelefa Sanneh wrote an interesting (if overly mystifying) piece on Will Oldham in The New Yorker. In it, Sanneh notes that Oldham refers to Lie Down In The Light as "the little record" and that:

In March, he plans to release "the big record," a deeply satisfying album called Beware, which conjures a mood of resolution, maybe even finality ... He intends to promote the album with singles, a photo shoot, and a handful of interviews, if only to prove that record promotion doesn't really work, at least not for him.

In one such promotional turn he appeared on WNYC's Soundcheck for an interview and a performance of Beware's second track "You Can't Hurt Me Now." You'll have to deal with John Schaeffer to get to the goods, but the unadorned Oldham's worth the wait. It's also fun hearing Will playing the smart-ass in the interview (re: Nashville, etc.) and going into his thoughts on acting and music, among other things. So stay tuned:

(Via I Am Fuel, You Are Friends)

That was live. It appears in studio form on Beware:

01 "Beware Your Only Friend"
02 "You Can't Hurt Me Now"
03 "My Life's Work"
04 "Death Final"
05 "Heart's Arms"
06 "You Don't Love Me"
07 "You Are Lost"
08 "I Won't Ask Again"
09 "I Don't Belong To Anyone"
10 "There is Something I Have To Say"
11 "I Am Goodbye"
12 "Without Work, You Have Nothing"
13 "Afraid Ain't Me"

Here's the album art:

Beware is out 3/17 via Drag City.

[Photo by Jesse Fischler]

Posted at 1:05 PM by brandon
Tags: Bonnie Prince Billy | Will Oldham

15 Comments

the feature with BPB in the recent New Yorker Magazine [Jan 5th] is a great one.

Posted by: k at 01/13/09 1:20 PM | Reply
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"A couple week ago" GET A LINE EDITOR

Posted by: Manny at 01/13/09 1:48 PM | Reply
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"GET A LINE EDITOR" Don't you mean "Get a line editor."? I mean, you know about punctuation and proper capitalization, right?

Posted by: Horse's Ass in reply to Manny's comment at 01/13/09 2:22 PM | Reply
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Cool cover, reminiscent of 'I See A Darkness'. Really looking forward to this one.

Posted by: Jeff at 01/13/09 2:46 PM | Reply
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between IUD ripping off the Mael Brothers and now this...interesting "trend" we have going on at the 'gum today...don't believe me? https://www.psychprog.com/img/imag14863.jpg

Posted by: Liam at 01/13/09 2:55 PM | Reply
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Scrawled handwriting and a black-and-white photo? I think you've cracked the case!

Posted by: oh. in reply to Liam's comment at 01/13/09 3:03 PM | Reply
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Last year's Lie Down In The Light first introduced me to Oldham. Great stuff. I'm really anticipating this release.

Posted by: mikey at 01/13/09 3:09 PM | Reply
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aw, brandon, why the schaeffer dis? It's the radio voice, isn't it?

Posted by: el-anon at 01/13/09 3:13 PM | Reply
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it is. i'm sorry. i bet he's a nice guy, but goddamn those radio voices.

Posted by: brandon  in reply to el-anon's comment at 01/13/09 3:22 PM | Reply
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it should be noted that i can't stand ira glass for the same reason -- and i realize people i love love him.

Posted by: brandon  in reply to brandon's comment at 01/13/09 3:26 PM | Reply
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guh!? ... I'm speechless... Mostly:
Gee, I thought for sure the only thing we didn't have in common was metal. And noise. Et al. I'm sure you feel the same way abt peter sagal and other unthreatening and charmingly nerdy npr types. hater :)
(prolly hate emoticons too)

Posted by: el-anon in reply to brandon's comment at 01/13/09 10:00 PM | Reply
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Cool cover, reminds me of "Before and After Science."

Posted by: A.J. at 01/13/09 3:51 PM | Reply
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A bit of "Tonight's the Night" in there too.

Posted by: Stephen B  in reply to A.J.'s comment at 01/13/09 4:35 PM | Reply
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Oldham is the link to Evolution.

Posted by: Richard Dawkins at 01/13/09 5:51 PM | Reply
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUvzc61xsck

Posted by: k at 01/13/09 5:53 PM | Reply
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