Artist: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang
Title: The Wonder Show Of The World
Label: Domino
Genre: Folk
Bitrate: 132kbit av.
Time: 00:47:46
Size: 47.71 mb
Rip Date: 2010-03-22
Str Date: 2010-03-22
01. Troublesome Houses 4:24
02. Teach Me To Bear You 5:44
03. With Cornstalks Or Among Them 3:07
04. The Sounds Are Always Begging 4:58
05. Go Folks, Go 5:53
06. That's What Our Love Is 7:23
07. Merciless And Great 5:31
08. Where Wind Blows 4:15
09. Someone Coming Through 3:46
10. Kids 2:45
Release Notes:
Although The Wonder Show of the World is the first Bonnie "Prince"
Billy record to feature a co-billing with the Cairo Gang, he's been
accompanied by guitarist Emmett Kelly many times, both as part of his
live band and in the studio for some of his best work of the 2000s (The
Letting Go, Lie Down in the Light). This time it's special, though,
with Kelly in the limelight like he's never been on record and a spare,
no-frills production to emphasize the music-making on display. His
playing is fluid and virtuosic but never showy, and his range is
impressive, from fingerpicked guitar to lazy but jagged country-rock
(on the occasional track with drums) to the brooding, stately "Teach Me
to Bear You," where he tears off a solo channeling Eric Clapton during
the last few seconds of a five-minute track. As always, Will Oldham's
lyrics never fail to impress, and the best are front-loaded. The
mystery of the opener, "Troublesome Houses," is revealed quickly ("I
once loved a girl, but she couldn't take that I visited troublesome
houses"). He inhabits his characters fully, and his lyrics reveal these
characters' inner thoughts in intriguing fashion: some are stark and
declamatory, others hurt and questioning, still others simply puzzled
and helpless when faced with the hands they've been dealt. More than
most Bonnie "Prince" Billy records, this is one of those austere
records, filled with lyrical archaisms -- fans will think first of
Master and Everyone -- but Kelly and company prove a capable foil for
the monolith of Oldham's rustic songwriting and singing.
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