Will Oldham, the new bob dylan.

i wanna talk about will olhman (aka bonnie "prince" billy), an artis that i discovered maybe the last moth, wherever, it was enough with the first time that I heard for what I liked. Olhman is a kind of folk songwriter, he´s part of the "new weird american", a kind of new folk, a little bit psychedelic or freak, definetly hippie.

My favourite song in this moment, has been playing all day in my ears is "Strange form of life" to "The letting go" album, recorded in 2005. Is a folk song playing with a girl in the second vocals, and the play between these two voices is one of the reason because it like to me so much. A sad and melancolic image of the deep america like jack kerouac used to say, like a image of the chilean patagonia i think. Oldham is like a kind of gaucho for us.

"The letting go" is for the moment one of my favourite albums, soft, deep, with slow sounds, perfect for the sounds of winter, perfect to sleep. And obviously talks about love as almost all the major records, but no like the typical romantics fools, these kind of latin lovers. did you know them?

and this is the lyrics of the song.

a strange form of life
kicking through windows
rolling on yards

heading in loved ones' triggering eyes
a strange one

and a hard way to come into a cabin
into the weather
into a path
walking together
a hard one

and the softest lips ever
25 years of waiting to kiss them
smiling and waiting
to bend down and kiss twice
the softest lips

in a dark little room
across the nation
you found myself racing
forgetting the strange and the hard
and the soft kiss
in the dark room

and a strange form of life
kicking through windows
rolling on yards

heading in loved ones' triggering eyes
a strange one