Bonny 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go

I go through times when in just hate music. I can't find anything that i want to listen to. The radio angers me, as everything on it is garbage. Even the stuff i love seems somehow tainted or stale or i don't know what, it's unexplainable. Nothing is inspiring, music is dead, there will never be another good album. etc. etc. Then there are times when i hear something that changes everything i ever thought i knew about music. Like when i first heard a Bob Dylan Album, David Bowie, Radiohead, Arcade Fire or Tool. All different types of music all completely shattered my perceptions of what good music was. All made me love music, all made me want to listen to everything these artists had ever made and to everything that inspired these artists to make this sort of music. I cannot believe i had never heard of Will Oldham ( aka Bonny 'Prince' Billy & Palace Music )until recently. He has almost 15 albums to his name and he writes the sort of music that astounds me. how can someone be this good? how can someone just write simple music and tell a story with that gets you caught up in the journey and forget about whatever it is you were thinking about previously. This is music for late at night, with a bottle of red. Or for cold winter afternoons. It's earthy and warm, its tone is soothing, its melody is medicinal.