Bonnie Prince Billy
Best Troubador
With Best Troubador, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy pays homage to a long-time and forever hero, the late Merle Haggard. A singer
who, some 25 years previously, first performed in public by playing a Merle Haggard song, Bonny has often cited Merle's
work in performance, on records and in conversation with anyone who was around, even talking to Merle himself for Filter
magazine in 2009. Best Troubador flips through his song book, landing on pages unmoored from their time and located
anew. Moving from 1978 to 1969 to 2003 to 1981 allows the album to circle Haggard's music in a simulation of thought and
memory, slipping around from spot to spot as if they were discrete impressions, unknown but knowable yet. Dedicated to
new life and old, Best Troubador is wistful and bittersweet and no lament at all, but a tribute instead, for the triumph
of a life spent in unending pursuit of the goal: new and expressive music, as our inspirations and heroes once sang it.
Price
Genre
Format
CD · 1 disc
Release
05-05-2017
Label
Item-nr
570664
EAN
0781484067429
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
THE FUGITIVE
2
I'M ALWAYS ON A MOUNTAIN WHEN I FALL
3
THE DAY THE RAINS CAME
4
HAGGARD (LIKE I'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE)
5
I ALWAYS GET LUCKY WITH YOU
6
LEONARD
7
MY OLD PAL
8
ROSES IN THE WINTER
9
SOME OF US FLY
10
WOULDN'T THAT BE SOMETHING
11
PRAY
12
THAT'S THE WAY LOVE GOES
13
NOBODY'S DARLING
14
WHAT I HATE (EXCERPT)
15
I AM WHAT I AM
16
IF I COULD ONLY FLY
