At this point in his career, Will Oldham can do pretty much whatever he wants. Before reaching his 30th birthday, he'd already mastered Leonard Cohen-aping folk gloom (on Palace Brothers' Days in the Wake), Appalachian country-rock (on Palace Music's Viva Last Blues), and darkly grand balladry (on Bonnie "Prince" Billy's I See a Darkness). But rather than continuing to reinvent himself, Oldham now seems to be resolving his dizzyingly multifold identity, shoring up the elements of his sound that ..... See the biography