Sings Greatest Palace Music

Rolling Stone - 3 stars out of 5 - "Oldham doesn't cover so much as reinvent spare Palace tunes such as "Ohio River Boat Song" and "Gulf Shores" into lush countrypolitian numbers." CMJ - "[H]is now-solid voice is confident, as though years of inexplicable yearning have made him wiser....Oldham's disenchantment has finally been refigured into a brilliant new eloquence." Mojo - "[B]eefed up country-style with big guitars, rollicking piano, fiddling fiddles and loud pedal steel....An agreeable curio..." Uncut - 4 stars out of 5 - "[P]ossibly the most straightforwardly enjoyable album Oldham has produced thus far....He sounds more human, less theatrical, touchingly direct." Uncut - Ranked #43 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "[A] stunning collection of wryly provocative country ballads with a blackly humorous twist." Spin - "[M]ost of these jaunty retoolings are a rhinestone-studded joy." - Grade: B+ Dirty Linen - "These sounds are amazingly fresh, vibrant, and a breath of fresh air..." Rolling Stone (3/18/04, p.72) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Oldham doesn't cover so much as reinvent spare Palace tunes such as "Ohio River Boat Song" and "Gulf Shores" into lush countrypolitian numbers." Spin (p.108) - "[M]ost of these jaunty retoolings are a rhinestone-studded joy." - Grade: B+ Mojo (4/04, p.126) - "[B]eefed up country-style with big guitars, rollicking piano, fiddling fiddles and loud pedal steel....An agreeable curio..." Uncut (4/04, p.93) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[P]ossibly the most straightforwardly enjoyable album Oldham has produced thus far....He sounds more human, less theatrical, touchingly direct." Uncut (p.76) - Ranked #43 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "[A] stunning collection of wryly provocative country ballads with a blackly humorous twist." CMJ (3/15/04, p.4) - "[H]is now-solid voice is confident, as though years of inexplicable yearning have made him wiser....Oldham's disenchantment has finally been refigured into a brilliant new eloquence."

'Greatest Palace Music' collects together tracks from Will Oldham's huge back catalogue of releases but with the added twist of Oldham re-recording them in the slighty more commercial style of his Bonnie 'Prince' Billy alter-ego. Produced and recorded in Nashville with Mark Nevers, the album features a whole host of Nashville regulars including the veteran piano player Hargus "Pig" Robbins who has worked with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Patsy Cline, to name but a few.|