Best Troubador: Vinyl 2LP Sheila Chandra New Musical Express’ critics’ poll

New Musical Express’ critics’ poll

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Best Troubador: Vinyl 2LP Sheila Chandra New Musical Express’ critics’ pollWith Best Troubador, Bonnie Prince Billy pays homage to a longtime and forever hero, the late Merle Haggard. A singer who, some 25 years previously, first performed in public by playing a Merle Haggard song, Bonny has often cited Merles work in performance, on records and in conversation with anyone who was around, even talking to Merle himself for Filter magazine in 2009. Best Troubador flips through his song book, landing on pages unmoored from