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Beware of new Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

A release date for an album PR folk are calling Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s “biggest” and “most ambitious” yet has been set for March 17, 2009.

The album, to be called Beware, is slated for release on Drag City.

Pitch Perfect PR’s ambitious in its own right press release has this description of the new record:

Where fiddle and steel contribute their rustic timbre alongside guitars and voices, a thickening thud of low tone rolls beneath, giving the record a bottom that’s fun to watch bounce in new clothes. This intensifies the air and heralds Beware as Bonny’s biggest, most ambitious record to date – yea, bigger and more ambitious than even The Letting Go! A listen or two through and you too may conclude that this could also be the great Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy contempo-country record – though, as always, the ‘Prince’ goes his own special way, even when climbing the charts with brawny arms and classic titles like “I Don’t Belong to Anyone,” “You Can’t Hurt Me Now,” and “I Am Goodbye.”

(Hat Tip: Bluegrass Catastrophe)

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