If there's anything difficult about listening to Will Oldham's music, it's trying to ignore his myth: a fiercely independent, Kentucky-born folk singer who covers R. Kelly and Danzig with equal passion; a reluctant but assured interviewer who tends to answer either in single words ("No") or intimate disclosures ("There are erotic aspects to it," he once said of his beard); a bandleader who under-rehearses his musicians and rarely uses the same sidemen twice; a heretic who re-recorded his frail, hesitant early work with a band of Nashville... More >>>