Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe track records of Bonnie “Prince” Billy — a.k.a. former Palace frontman Will Oldham — and guitarist-singer Matt Sweeney reach back some 30 years and create a dense discographical tangle that takes as long to read as most of the albums take to listen to.
Yet all of Oldham’s work bears his trademark high, breathy voice and folk-inflected songwriting, and Sweeney’s wildly diverse resume has made him into an unusually versatile and intuitive musician — he was frontman for ‘90s indie band Chavez and has played guitar or bass with everyone from Iggy Pop and Adele to Run the Jewels and Malian guitar ninjas Tinarwen, not to mention on Rick Rubin-produced albums by Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond.
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