2024 repress. “Hold your breath — now let it go. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s Greatest Palace Music is back on vinyl for the first time in a generation. In 2005, it followed the release of Bonny’s Master and Everyone. It may have seemed a novel idea at the time, but the ‘Prince’ was simply taking a page from the old masters of country and western music, addressing a swath of old favorite numbers with new performances. He’s done something similar several times since, with Now Here’s My Plan, Singer’s Grave a Sea of Tongues, and (under the nom-de-vie, Will Oldham), Songs of Love and Horror. The Greatest Palace Music recordings were done in Nashville with a studio full of session cats old and new, addressing only the pre-Bonny material released as Palace Brothers/Songs/or Music, the originals of which can be found on the albums There Is No One What Would Take Care of You, Days In the Wake, and Lost Blues and Other Songs. As befits an album of ‘Greatest’ whatever, the tunes were given plush, enormous, near glacial treatments as they were played and sung again, and sound, even at a distance of nigh-twenty years, to be bigger than ever.”