Sold Out: Bonnie Prince Billy with Footings and Asa Irons

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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy has been Will Oldham’s singing dummy since 1998.  Oldham lives in Louisville, KY with wife and daughter.  As our collective subconscious understanding of what songs are has shifted, so has their work. In late ’19/early ’20 I Made a Place came out, a new record of original songs. Over the course of the horrific 2020 Bill Callahan and Bonny Billy released, ‘virtually’, Blind Date Party, ultimately 20 songs with accompanying visualizations, in an effort to bridge newly revealed distances in space, time and emotion.  Matt Sweeney & Bonny Billy’s SUPERWOLVES came out in 2021; this was a group of rock poems.  In 2022 there’s been the live singalong cycle Old Hard and Marvelous and the cassette-only  hard-dreamcycle release High and High and MIghty, on Ha Ha Institute.

Footings is the long-running/rocking outgrowth of Peterborough NH’s great ruralist duo, Redwing Blackbird. Initially formed as a trio in 2012 by Eric Gagne on guitar and vocals, Footings’ sound embraces a sort of inner light derived from folk music, but surrounds it with a variety of rockist tropes. This rock action can take many forms, especially on this new album, which features their most expanded/expansive line-up yet.

Asa Irons operates on another musical plane, verging on the mystical. Beyond his inimitable solo work, he’s known as former member of J Mascis’ stoner metal outfit Witch, freak-folk super-group family-band Feathers, and deep woods noise ritualists Taboo. Asa’s solo work follows unexplored acoustic territory, bridging gaps between the furthest realms of contemporary folk, Irish music, and country, with ample doses of psychedelica, the avant-garde, and old world songcraft. His 2012 LP, Knife Gift Debt (Turned Word/Laughable Recordings) is a set of songs that somehow feel both completely of the now and like vivid visions from another place and time. It’s easily one of the most fully-realized musical statements to ever come out of the state of Maine.