Will Oldham News

Singer, songwriter and troubadour Bonnie "Prince" Billy is no stranger to film. The artist, whose real name is Will Oldham, got his start as a performer acting in John Sayles' Matewan .

This past August, singer/songwriter Will Oldham stopped by the Los Angeles recording studio where Johnny Cash and producer Rick Rubin were finishing work on the third album in Cash's American series of albums.

"Even to a writer who is being intentionally obscure or wild of tongue we can say, 'Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand!'" -- Strunk & White, "The Elements of Style" I love it when artists known for their work in one medium show a passionate investment in another.

In the late 1980s, a teenage Will Oldham moved from Kentucky to Los Angeles to start an acting career, and he landed a series of small roles, most notably as a preacher in John Sayles' Matewan and as "Chip" in a television movie about Jessica McClure.