bonnie prince billy - goodbye old stepstone

[MatthieuDeLaPommes]

not everybody should wear a beard these days.rodent billy.

[LittleBigYoda115]

bonnie's best...excuse me, only good song.

[SirHprdgn]

@LittleBigYoda115 Nope.

[wellsboy85]

Is there anyway to get an mp3 link to all of this that he did on the show?

[spentonmediocrity]

looks like a bald nietszche...this sounds good,I will look into his music.

[skum313]

i worked At A preschool CAllled stepping stone And It clOsed, THis Song iS perfecT!!! I left there With a siGH. + )

[Hikaks]

this song makes me smile

[3idiot3]

i love this

[wernerslostblues]

god i love will.

[edumota]

maybe the best and underrated artist in these times..

[fourpio]

This is a Woody Guthrie song.

[iceCOld719]

its actually a bascom lamar lunsford song. and he is a guy from nc before guthrie's time and he recorded lots of songs he learned from back country musicians no ones ever heard of....so its probably not even his song either....he jus popularized it.

[tgillish]

@fourpio

this song was around before woody guthrie

[zolabud69]

Really nice.

[bichiclete]

very grateful for having uploaded this video.

[snowskrunch]

bonnie prince billy looks like if you huged him he might brush you with his razor beard and remove half of you face (musicly speaking)

[ANNIETEMP]

How wonderful is this. I adore this man

[jumpoffmountaineers]

this gent is only half the singer that bascom lamar lunsford is, but its nice to see someone appreciate traditional song and present it to folks who would never otherwise care about american music

[goneglaze]

you should check out The Tallest man on earth with this song..

[MyProspero]

Fabulous!

[statikdog]

cool voice

[talktopete]

I don't get it either. At all. Like Phish or the Dead, just leaves me baffled. I won't judge it though. I will say this he is a legit artist ,thank God. I might just educate myself and go see him. We need more people like him.

[sarafreill]

i was in a store yesterday and heard him, not knowing who he was- and i compared him to phish and the dead too, his new album hurts my heart.

[fiesertechno]

is that a gibson LG-O...? nice one.

great rendition of this song.

[timpaulcope]

just stopped.

[timpaulcope]

im still crying

[timpaulcope]

I'm cryin.

[cajantube]

Neither do I.

[whereisthelin3]

...i don't really understand what the big deal is...

[johnbourbon]

it's amazing what people will fight about

[scarletgroove]

Splendid

[rollzst]

this song is fucking awesome!!!!

[bugpowderdust]

i'm hooked

[wefanscomingsoon]

Of course they can, i applaud it. Just like i would laud my own opinion that Will is the best song writer of my generation

[wefanscomingsoon]

fenninger, sounds like you are sporting your opinion just like i sported mine.  VIC CHESTNUTT???????

[MBuchele]

Hey dude. Can't someone love Chesnutt and Oldham simultaneous-like?

[wefanscomingsoon]

i am aware

[wefanscomingsoon]

will oldham is the most accomplished songwriter of our time.  period.

[bill21967]

That may be, but Mr. Oldham did not write this song, it is a folk song, somewhat popularized and brought to wider attention by Bascom Lamar Lunsford.

[recipitur2]

I like how you added this over here on the left side of the screen. It wasn't sufficient that its up there under "more Info." This way "lefties" won't miss out on knowing about Bascom lamar lunsford. My right brain percieved the whole Bascom lamar lunsford situation like a whole nano-milli-second faster than it would have otherwise, having to navigate the whole left side of my brain and then finally drag its tired ass on over here,,,,,,

[recipitur2]

Thanks to this fine comment- all that brain activity was spared. Obviously, for more important things like an astonishing sensation and typing this up to you to offer as my humble thanks.

[pfenningerfinger]

that's such a meaningless statement. daniel johnston? stephen merritt? elliot smith? p.j harvey? caetano veloso? luke haines? nick cave? vic chesnut? billy childish? carol king? burt bacharach? robert wyatt? marta sabastyen? neil young? buck up mate. the world's bigger than oldham-land, which is a pretty patchy place anyway.

[milligand]

nevermind.

The video said it was no longer available and I panicked

[milligand]

can anyone repost this video?

[wasteland70]

I don't know shit about him or music, really. I like what I like and this song is gorgeous.

[PAULLONDEN]

Wots with dthe moustache ?

compensation for lack on other places.

Belly "prince"Billy...more like.

[ch90000]

Belly? What are you talking about? You make absolutely no sense.

[firstwaveintact]

The moustache alone makes him a GOD.

[xicocamotl]

Mexico, land of gods, then...

[peter9style]

:-) Rofl!

[PrinceBaby]

paul you are a twat

[PAULLONDEN]

I know I made no sense at all here,

I'm seriously sorry I lowered myself

to the level of the lowest common commentator.

(I mean it man)

[rapidrex]

SUPERB! Drive on! God bless you with a sigh...hahah!  I cherish fond memories of this song.

[carboniferousdave]

Well Hell, it made me cry...a tune of emmigrants everywhere!

[hoffmannia2k6]

Stepstone, what a tune!

[littledingy]

I like how he silenced the strings at the end.

[Sadie1233]

I've watched this video about 20 times, it's such a great song. I downloaded it from daytrotter dot com but it wasn't as good as this version. He sings it a little differently in that one.

[machinekid]

It's available on Daytrotter, slakpak. daytrotter dot com/songs

[slakpak]

unbelievable. does anyone know if this was released? by anybody? cant find the song anywhere..

[kubes]

bascam lamar lunsford. i think it is on a smithsonian collection of his recordings.

[dottywall]

absolutely beautiful

[Anotherartist]

Ich lieb es wenn seine stimme so gebrochen tönt

[Murgatroid86]

Okay, the rendition of this song is fucking amazing and all but wow, just look at that video quality.

[tungsong]

wicked tache

[crasybrooke]

life knows these words well