"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Schurz

"The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time." - George Sutherland
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." - Edmund Burke

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

My recommendations 2006:
The Letting Go by Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Letting Go
Drag City 9/19/2006

The Letting Go is quite possibly Will Oldham's finest work since 1999's I See a Darkness. The addition of vocals by Faun Fables' Dawn McCarthy and strings softens Oldham's ordinarily spartan arrangements. This album is no sunshine-pop affair, however; Oldham is still quite gloomy. Even his tender ballads tend to be depressing. It's a good thing, though, because few artists do pessimism and resignation better than Bonnie "Prince" Billy.

Posted by Jonathan at 3:35 PM

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