Prolific singer-songwriter Will Oldham has been able to maintain what Marc calls “a haunting and elated tone” over the course of his career, whether in his collaborations with other artists or under the name Bonnie “Prince” Billy. Will talks with Marc about how his music stems from the example of his artist mother, records checked out of the library, and his Kentucky roots. They also talk about his recent album The Purple Bird as well as Will’s acting career, which launched when he was a teenager and John Sayles cast him in the film Matewan. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Lock the gate! I'm dealing. I'm doing okay today. I try to stay engaged, entertained, self-aware. I try to allot myself about, not even intentionally, about, I don't know, two to three hours of relentless catastrophic thinking and panic a day. And then I actually exhaust myself and it frees me up to do other things. I don't know if that's a healthy process or spiritual or practical.
It just seems to be something that happens. That exhausted peace of mind. But look, today on the show, I talked to Will Oldham. Now this guy, he's been on my periphery for a long time, man. You may know him as Bonnie Prince Billy. He records under that name for most of his stuff. He's put out more than two dozen studio albums. And the latest is called Purple Bird.
He's also an actor who's been in movies like The Bike Riders, Wendy and Lucy and Old Joy, but also Mate One. Remember John Sayles and Will Oldham as a kid actually played the child preacher in that.
And it's a performance that before I never I found out that he was that guy years later after I knew about or I'd heard about or listened to Bonnie Prince Billy, because that role when he was a kid as that preacher kid was haunting and intense and and menacing. Er ist ein fundamentaler Teil dieses Films.
Und er ist, ich weiß nicht, ich habe ihn darüber gesprochen, ich kann mich nicht erinnern, wie alt er war, aber wahrscheinlich unter 20, weißt du. Und es war, es war, es war bemerkenswert. Aber jetzt ist Bonnie Prinze Billie einer dieser Leute, die nicht wie einige andere Drag City Künstler, das Label. who just are very prolific, put out a lot of work. And a lot of it is great.
I don't even know how you'd really classify Will. I guess there's a folk element, but he's not beyond doing kind of rock-ish records. And he's not beyond collaborating with people from other types of music. And he's quite the artist, this guy. And I was a little... I don't know if I was nervous... Ja, genau. Er und Matt Sweeney haben den tollen Superwolf-Rekord gemacht.
Ich hatte die Bonny-Prince-Billy-Rekorde schon. Ich habe sie hier und da gelesen. Aber der Superwolf-Rekord hat mir wirklich aufgefallen. Ich habe mit Sweeney darüber gesprochen. Dann bin ich aber in Will und Bonny-Prince-Billy-Rekorde angefangen. Es gibt viele lyrisch und musikalisch wunderschöne Arbeiten mit vielen verschiedenen Musikern. Als mir die Gelegenheit kam, mit ihm zu sprechen, I did.
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