Will Oldham - Summer In The Southeast on CD

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Amazon.co.uk Will Oldham has reinterpreted his old music before, but live set Summer In The Southeast--recorded in front of appreciative crowds in Florida, Georgia, Mississipi, and Alabama--is a far more interesting rereading than 2004’s sometimes kitsch Nashville homage Greatest Palace Music. Fronting a band comprised of former Zwan man Matt Sweeney, brother Ned Oldham, and a cast of floating Bonnie ‘Prince’ collaborators, dusty old Palace song-sketches like "Pushkin" and "A Sucker’s Evening" gain new life, born up on vital swells of guitar and sweet female backing vocals courtesy of guesting folk singer Sara ‘Pink Nasty’ Beck. "Wolf Among Wolves" is an early highlight, the band baying their appreciation during the instrumental breaks. But it’s the rockier moments, so uncharacteristic of Oldham, that are the winners: the take on "O Let It Be" that shrieks in like a cyclone, or the psychedelic cacophony of "Madeline Mary". Dyed-in-the-wool Palace fans might be standing up, shaking a fist, and hollering "Judas!", but ignore them – this is the ideal way of levelling a rocky, confusing recording career. --Louis Pattison Product Description A must have for fans!!! SUMMER IN THE SOUTHEAST is the first-ever Bonnie "Prince" Billy live album!