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Will Oldham is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. His music (perhaps inappropriately) is often placed under the genre of "alternative country".
Oldham has recorded under many names other than his own, including Palace, Palace Brothers, Palace Music, Palace Songs, and Bonnie ‘Prince' Billy. He often plays and records with other musicians, including David Pajo and his brothers Ned and Paul Oldham, but is generally the chief creator of the music.
He has also been involved in musical projects and bands such as Box Of Chocolates, Amalgamated Sons of Rest, The Anomoanon, The Boxhead Ensemble, Superwolf (with Matt Sweeney), The Continental OP (with David Pajo), Current 93 (with David Tibet), and Silver Jews (with David Berman).
Dependable isn't a glamorous adjective for a musician, and reliability doesn't sell a lot of records, but Will Oldham, through his arsenal of aliases, has been creating consistently good music for nearly two decades. Musically, these meticulously crafted songs give the impression of front-porch spontaneity, their purposefulness made to sound like serendipity. Rating 8.7
-Pitchfork
Wai Notes is comprised from recordings on tapes exchanged between Will Oldham and Dawn McCarthy through the mail prior to recording The Letting Go.
The Letting Go drifts on a rolling sea of acoustic strum, clacking percussion, lush strings, and Oldham croak. The pull of European cool against Oldham's usual rustic, heartfelt love poetry creates moments of sweet tension. 100/100.
-The Onion AV Club
Superwolf, a new collaboration with guitar freelancer Matt Sweeney, sees Oldham at his squirrely best, squeaking out his finest songs since 1999's I See a Darkness.
Will Oldham returns, and yes he's still Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. But this time he's singing from the greatest songbook of 'em all: the Palace songbook. Which he wrote. Will Oldham has made some of the world's greatest, most compelling, beautiful, rugged, raw, soulful, witty, and sorrowful records of all time.
On Master and Everyone, Oldham creates himself as a character that is as conflicted and as well-developed as any fiction writer could hope to think up.
-Dusted Reviews
If I See a Darkness was an album of fear, Ease Down the Road could best be seen as an album of contained joy and resignation. While I See a Darkness was kept at a veritable whisper, and rarely deviated from the sparsest of arrangements, Ease Down the Road is not only Oldham's most fleshed-out work to date, but also his most sonically diverse.
-Pitchfork
Oldham is perhaps the greatest of human singers, in that he sounds like a real person. There's no studio gimmickry to hide the quiver in his mostly bang-on tone.
-Pitchfork
Country, garage rock, American poetic bile, and sheer venomous energy fuel this terrific set that ranks among Oldham's finest moments on record.
-Allmusic
-Allmusic
Viva Last Blues sees frontman Will Oldham turning out some of the strongest bleak country-rock in his career and taking the music in a few intriguing and even upbeat directions.
Number 60 in Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s.
-Allmusic
