Where Are You Tonight?
Will Oldham recorded as Palace, Palace Brothers, Palace Music, then under his given name, then Bonnie Prince Billy, then Oldham again. You had to keep track, but the songs were good—almost timeless—and with more time on his hands, Oldham’s doing good things.
Silent Prayer
I have, for instance, several new desires (two may seem absurd but I am serious about them): first, to compose a piece of uninterrupted silence and sell it to Muzak Co. It will be 3 or 4½ minutes long—those being the standard lengths of “canned” music—and its title will be Silent Prayer. It will open with a single idea which I will attempt to make as seductive as the color and shape and fragrance of a flower.