The Purple Bird

The Purple BirdThe Purple Bird finds Bonnie "Prince" Billy working with a "producer" for only the second time in his illustrious catalog. This time it's David "Ferg" Ferguson (Johnny Cash, Sturgill Simpson) who guides the songs backed by "the best band you can get in Nashville right now", country singer John Anderson and Bluegrass legend Tim O'Brien. The Purple Bird is simultaneously like and unlike other BPB records. Many of the songs are a product of multiple

at times in chamber settings with cello

and a bespoke electronics rig of his own creation

Here he teams up with co-bandleader/sitarist Jarvis Earnshaw

I partook of the crop

with the rubble

touching on all corners of progressive

Affirmed caused Popmatters to declare the record “one that others like it will soon be measured against

” he says

While juggling a number of other projects James Elkington began writing "music for which there was no purpose

Psalms was born of a desire for some kind of rigorous and creative Jewish engagement

On Beings’ There Is A Garden

Besides the core line-up of Gray/Druzd