Bonnie 'Prince' Billy- Greatest Palace Music

Label: Drag City

Reissued 4/11/2025, Originally released 2004

In the period immediately following the release and promotion of his first three albums (I See A Darkness, Ease Down the Road, Master and Everyone), the Bonny 'Prince' repaired to Nashville to look forward into his past, singing anew fifteen tracks from his previous incarnation in Palace Brothers/Songs/Music (circa 1992-1995). The Greatest Palace band was a once in a lifetime assembly: studio cats Eddie Bayers, Stuart Duncan, Mark Fain, Mike Johnson and Hargus Robbins, aided and abetted by Andrew Bird, Dave Bird, Jack Carneal. Tony Crow, D.V. DeVincentis, Duane Denison, Colin Gagon, Ned Oldham, Paul Oldham, Aram Stith, Matt Sweeney, and William Tyler, and featuring the voices of Todd Brashear, Mary Feiock, Cynthia Hopkins, Ann McCrary, Iris Nevers, Lily Nevers, Sue Schofield, Marty Slayton, San Stancil, Suzanne Young, all and sundry and David Berman.

Track listing:

1. New Partner
2. Ohio River Boat Song
3. Gulf Shores
4. You Will Miss Me When I Burn
5. The Brute Choir
6. I Send My Love to You
7. More Brother Rides
8. Agnes, Queen of Sorrow
9. Viva Ultra
10. Pushkin
11. Horses
12. Riding 
13. West Palm Beach 
14. No More Workhorse Blues
15. I Am a Cinematographer