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Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Nathan Salsburg - "Wallins Creek Girls"

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.

Two Louisville greats are teaming up for the first time as a duo. Will Oldham, aka Bonnie "Prince Billy, and Nathan Salsburg (who's been pulling double duty with Joan Shelley), will release a 7" EP for Record Store Day 2017. The two A-side cuts find the fellas singing about a pair of local landmarks, Wallins and Beargrass Creek, and a third traditional song ("Fare You Well, My Little Annie Darling") as the flip.

As for our first listen, the pair say this of "Wallins Creek Girls":

“Wallins Creek Girls” isn’t so much about a creek, but a brief impression of two free-spirited women who spent one long ago September 11th (a Friday) bumming cigarettes and hitching rides around the Harlan County coal camp of Wallins Creek, Kentucky. It was presumably composed by Dawson “Little Daw” Henson (1886–1974) of Clay County, who recorded it for Alan Lomax in 1937.

Kyle is the WFPK Music Director. Email Kyle at kmeredith@lpm.org

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