The Purple Bird

The Purple BirdMore Info The Purple Bird finds Bonnie "Prince" Billy working with a "producer" for only the second time in his illustrious catalogue. 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

1-8    Elton John–    Lady Samantha

B1 Trends (2)– Mouth Shaker

The Lovely Eggs have sat back and watched England and the rest of the planet slowly eat itself

These songs focused on a theme by intertwining the individual characters stories of a group of friends who gathered for one night at the same local bar

both of which would become mainstays in the black metal scene & beyond

released on 13 March 1995 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and Capitol Records in the United States

filled with the beauty of day-drunkenness and Proustian flights into memory and waking up in the afternoon and realizing that

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but an involving spectacle nevertheless

C2 Somebody Put Something In My Drink

A2 Diamonds And Rust

B4 The Uniques– Hooray