Sings Greatest Palace Music

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Sings Greatest Palace Music
Studio album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Released	23 March 2004
Label	Drag City
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy chronology
Master and Everyone (2003) Sings Greatest Palace Music (2004) The Letting Go (2006)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Sings Greatest Palace Music is the name of an album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. It features new recordings of songs from his Palace music era (1993-1997), recorded in Nashville, Tennessee with a large group of country session musicians. The lo-fi nature of the songs' original recordings was abandoned in favour of a more conventionally polished country sound. Guest musicians include Eddie Bayers, Stuart Duncan, Mark Fain, Mike Johnson, Hargus Robbins, Andrew Bird and Bruce Watkins.

[edit] Track listing

1. "New Partner" - 4:31 (original version from Viva Last Blues)
2. "Ohio River Boat Song" - 2:54 (original version from "Ohio River Boat Song" single)
3. "Gulf Shores" - 3:54 (original version from "West Palm Beach" single)
4. "You Will Miss Me When I Burn" - 4:08 (original version from Days in the Wake)
5. "The Brute Choir" - 3:41 (original version from Viva Last Blues)
6. "I Send My Love to You" - 2:28 (original version from Days in the Wake)
7. "More Brother Rides" - 3:04 (original version from Viva Last Blues)
8. "Agnes, Queen of Sorrow" - 3:13 (original version from Hope)
9. "Viva Ultra" - 3:56 (original version from Viva Last Blues)
10. "Pushkin" - 4:01 (original version from Days in the Wake)
11. "Horses" - 3:45 (original version from "Horses" single)
12. "Riding" - 3:42 (original version from There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You)
13. "West Palm Beach" - 4:03 (from "West Palm Beach" single)
14. "No More Workhorse Blues" - 2:56 (original version from Days in the Wake)
15. "I Am a Cinematographer" - 7:44 (original version from Days in the Wake)

[edit] Personnel

• Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano
• Mark Fain – bass
• Bruce Watkins – acoustic guitar
• Mike Johnson – pedal steel
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle and mandolin
• Eddie Bayers – drums

v • d • e Will Oldham / Palace Music / Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Studio albums There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You (1993) · Days in the Wake (1994) · Viva Last Blues (1995) · Arise Therefore (1996) · Joya (1997) · I See a Darkness (1999) · Ease Down the Road (2001) · Master and Everyone (2003) · Sings Greatest Palace Music (2004) · Superwolf (2005) · The Brave and the Bold (2006) · The Letting Go (2006) · Wai Notes (2007) · Lie Down in the Light (2008) · Beware (2009) Live albums: Get the Fuck on Jolly Live (2001) · Summer in the Southeast (2005) · Wilding in the West (2008) · Is It The Sea? (2008) EPs Goat Songs (1993) · An Arrow Through the Bitch (1994) · Hope (1994) · The Mountain (1995) · Songs Put Together For (The Broken Giant) (1996) · Western Music (1997) · Black/Rich Music (1998) · Blue Lotus Feet (1998) · Dream of a Drunk Black Southern Eagle (1999) · Ode Music (2000) · More Revery (live version) (2000) · All Most Heaven (2000) · Get on Jolly (2000) · More Revery (studio version) (2001) · Amalgamated Sons of Rest (2002) · Slitch Music (2002) · Seafarers Music (2004) · Pebbles and Ripples (2004) · I Gave You (2005) · Strange Form of Life (2007) · Ask Forgiveness (2007) · Among The Gold (2009) Compilations Lost Blues and Other Songs (1997) · Guarapero/Lost Blues 2 (2000) · Little Lost Blues (2006) Related articles Discography · Drag City · Amalgamated Sons of Rest