Will Oldham and the Wisdom of Palace

By Douglas Wolk, eMusic Contributor

There are some received ideas about Will Oldham, aka Palace/Palace Music/Palace Brothers/Palace Songs, aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy, that just won't seem to die: that he's a "folk" artist, that he's all about "Appalachian" music, that he's an innocent, Bible-thumping soul who somehow stumbled upon the indie-rock world - that he is, in short, some kind of hick or hayseed. He doesn't exactly discourage them with his image (the crack in his voice, his burning stare,… more »