With his cracked, melancholy warble and stark, plaintive lullabies, William
Oldham is well established as a cult, world-weary songwriter who flits from
dark, sombre frailty to gentle, touching sweetness amid pure eccentricity and
random comedy.
Born in Kentucky, he started out as an actor and featured in the Academy
Award-nominated drama 'Matewan' in 1987, before making his first recordings with
the band Palace Brothers with members of Louisville indie rockers Slint in the
early 1990s. Taking the Bonnie Prince Billy moniker as a helpful way of adopting
a character when he pe...