BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY - The Purple Bird LP Chaoscore Counter to the ramshackle hostility

Counter to the ramshackle hostility of much improvised music

or Nocturnal Emissions

The record features artwork by New Orleans' underground

slow skull smashers

Udo Lindenberg

BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY - The Purple Bird LP Chaoscore Counter to the ramshackle hostilityThe Purple Bird finds Bonnie "Prince" Billy working with a "producer" for only the second time in his illustrious catalog. This time it's David "Ferg" Ferguson (Johnny Cash, Sturgill Simpson) who guides the songs backed by "the best band you can get in Nashville right now", country singer John Anderson and Bluegrass legend Tim O'Brien. The Purple Bird is simultaneously like and unlike other BPB records. Many of the songs are a product of multiple