Join Madame X on Wednesday, June 24th at 7pm when she speaks with singer/songwriter/actor, Will Oldham aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy.
The man who sings and composes under the name Bonnie “Prince” Billy and acts under the name Will Oldham has, over the past three-plus decades, made an idiosyncratic journey through, and an indelible mark on, the worlds of indie rock and independent cinema.
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 by human action. What remains is the question of what we will carry forward, and how we will refuse to surrender ourselves.
Will Oldham’s new album, We Are Together Again, feels like an answer.
In Oldham’s songs – and in the circle of others gathered beneath the name Bonnie “Prince” Billy – friendship, community, and the stubborn joy of making art with others become a means of persistence. This isn’t a denial of collapse, which would be delusion, but a kind of defiance: remaining fully human, fully joyful, in a world with a diminishing horizon.
Photo: Urban Wyatt
