Nowhere is this clearer, perhaps, than in the sheer glee he expresses at working on The Purple Bird, his 30th studio album, his 25th under the moniker Bonnie “Prince” Billy and his first with ...

The subject omitted in the title of The Purple Bird’s first song is, of course, Earth itself; the proposed solution in parenthesis. Yet it sounds neither totally bleak nor didactic, more like sharing ...

There might be a whole lot of awful shit going on around us, but The Purple Bird is here to remind us at times that no matter how much the world might want to swallow you up in the negativity, we have ...

The Purple Bird isn’t the first time Will Oldham (the enigmatic, Kentucky-born and based songwriter behind the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy brand) has headed to Nashville. 2007’s Greatest Palace Music ...

The Purple Bird is Oldham’s Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s new album. The 12-song outing was recorded with David Ferguson and written during infamous Nashville writing sessions. Oldham finds himself ...

In a sure sign that spring is not far behind, the first Purple Martins of the year have been spotted in Alabama. The birds were seen on January 16 in the city of Slocomb, Alabama, by a Purple ...

It comes as an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone was introduced in Northern Ireland on Saturday following three confirmed cases of bird flu in wild birds in three different countries. Since early ...

First lady Jill Biden telegraphed political unity with her outfit for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday. Dressed in a Ralph Lauren coat, gloves and pumps in a vibrant shade of b ...