Will Oldham returns as Bonnie "Prince" Billy for his most country-oriented album in over 20 years. Read more about the new ...

INTERVIEW: Laura Barton talks to Will Oldham about recording with some of his heroes, how he writes for his alter ego, and why a song about gun deaths made his legs turn to jelly ...

The difference between these birds becomes clear when you compare the adult males. Purple finches are a deep cranberry or raspberry color on most of their body. Male house finches are more orange ...

I was fortunate enough to have a pair of purple finches nest near me, allowing me to observe their courtship ritual for the first time. The male sang incessantly from a tree ...

The Master Gardeners of Hamilton County, in association with the University of Tennessee Extension, opens their 2025 monthly series of Third Saturday Free Gardening Classes this Saturday at 10 ...

By sticking close to cosy genre format, The Purple Bird gives Oldham a framework for vocalising painful 21st-century truths ...

Oldham has said that when he listens to The Purple Bird, “oftentimes I can’t help but laugh in wonder that life allowed me to participate in such a thing.” That joy and wonderment are part ...

I have a whole new definition for “streaming TV.” A couple years ago, I installed a tiny color camera, complete with audio, inside one of my purple martin houses. This allows me to observe and ...

For the first time, ancient DNA from droppings left by New Zealand’s flightless moa identifies actual species of fungi the doomed birds ate. The snacks, including purple lumps of a trufflelike ...

The Purple Bird finds Bonnie “Prince” Billy working with a “producer” for only the second time in his illustrious catalog. This time it’s David “Ferg” Ferguson (Johnny Cash, Sturgill Simpson) who ...