8hands Artists Of The Week: Jeffrey & Jack Lewis
Personally, I hate Bonnie Prince Billy AKA Will Oldham AKA whatever. I also think he is way too overrated - the Bruce Springsteen of the folk revival. He's got the most un-special voice ever & his lyrics are ridiculously predictable.

But not all of us at the 8hands mega-team feel the same way, and I can't even remember how many times we argued about that. Our Goldi loves Oldham. She says he's got "a moving fragile voice" and when she listens to him she sees "paintings & landscapes". Oh, Oldham also keeps her belly “feels cosey in the winter".
A while ago, I found out that Jeffrey Lewis, a great anti-folk artist, got a love-hate relationship with Oldham - kinda like us (only with us it's clear - Goldi is the "love" part and I'm the "hate" part. Lewis loves him & hates him at the same time). On Lewis & his brother's Jack album, "City & Eastern Songs", he's got a brilliant song called “Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror”, where he sort-of tells the truth about Billy. Or not.

Anyway, we decided that 8hands video of the week will be the video clip for “Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror”, so all of the 8hands users will be able to see Will Oldham as he really is – an artist worth admiring, or, “just a rich kid or a fascist or a charlatan”.


























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Fri, 08/10/2007 - 02:28
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