Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You, by Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You

by Bonnie "Prince" Billy

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_cavstic_ I say this with the greatest of confidence that Will Oldham is truly one of the most important treasures in music.

Giuseppe M Just bought the cd + cassette Bundle. As usual, thanks for the music! 🖤🎶

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releases August 11, 2023

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Buy the "Keeping Hard & Marvelous Bundle" and get a bonus: a cassette of material grown from the same garden plot as Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You, paired with your format of choice - LP, CD or CS. This bundle is for the LP of KSWDY + bonus cassette tape!

Includes digital pre-order of Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

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Purchasable with gift card

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Buy the "Keeping Hard & Marvelous Bundle" and get a bonus: a cassette of material grown from the same garden plot as Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You, paired with your format of choice - LP, CD or CS. This bundle is for the compact disc of KSWDY and the bonus cassette tape!

Includes digital pre-order of Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

shipping out on or around August 11, 2023

Purchasable with gift card

$26 USD or more
Cassette + Digital Album
Buy the "Keeping Hard & Marvelous Bundle" and get a bonus: a cassette of material grown from the same garden plot as Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You, paired with your format of choice - LP, CD or CS. This bundle is for the KSWDY cassette tape and bonus cassette tape!

Includes digital pre-order of Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

shipping out on or around August 11, 2023

Purchasable with gift card

$24 USD or more

1.	Like It or Not
2.	Behold! Be Held!
3.	Bananas 02:43 video	info
4.	Blood of the Wine
5.	Sing Them Down Together
6.	Kentucky is Water
7.	Willow, Pine and Oak
8.	Trees of Hell
9.	Rise and Rule (She Was Born in Honolulu)
10.	Queens of Sorrow
11.	Crazy Blue Bells
12.	Good Morning, Popocatépetl

about

Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You is a tale as old as time. It’s an album. Its songs and music are by and for people together. For listening together. Before it gets too late. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy stands at the nexus of all the kinds of music he can summon, with friends, with family and community. All roads roll though him. There can be no holding back. A million billion moments are on the line. He’s gonna tell us about a world...

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releases August 11, 2023

SARA LOUISE CALLAWAY violin
KENDALL CARTER keys
ELISABETH FUCHSIA viola and violin
DAVE HOWARD mandolin
DREW MILLER saxophone
DANE WATERS voice

and EMMETT KELLY, ding dongs

recorded by NICK ROEDER

mastered by CARL SAFF

all songs by Will Oldham, © royal stable music (ascap)

THANK YOU, ALL OF US

Front cover photograph Cafeteria, Yan'an China (Place of the Winter Home after the Long March) by Joe Wolek
Back cover photograph Bonny at Big Sur Grange Hall by Terry Way
Label drawings by Leo Riles
Front cover logo is concept art by Helvetica Blanc
Layout by Dan Osborn

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