The Master Gardeners of Hamilton County, in association with the University of Tennessee Extension, opens their 2025 monthly series of Third Saturday Free Gardening Classes this Saturday at 10 ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Will Oldham returns as Bonnie "Prince" Billy for his most country-oriented album in over 20 years. Read more about the new ...

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 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 ...

INTERVIEW: Laura Barton talks to Will Oldham about recording with some of his heroes, how he writes for his alter ego, and why a song about gun deaths made his legs turn to jelly ...

It's a wonder how Walter the deer made it to the New Year. If the antlers atop his head weren't reason enough for a hunter to tag him, one might think the purple adornment affixed to his right antler ...

By sticking close to cosy genre format, The Purple Bird gives Oldham a framework for vocalising painful 21st-century truths ...

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 ...

Oldham has said that when he listens to The Purple Bird, “oftentimes I can’t help but laugh in wonder that life allowed me to participate in such a thing.” That joy and wonderment are part ...

Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial (3 months for non-Prime members) The Purple Bird presented many different ...