We Are Together Again

In 2019 Bonny and co started to explore a process of making Louisville records again, in Louisville studios with Louisville musicians. They did I Made a Place this way, then Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You. Things were going well, and then they started going better.

The Purple Bird alit on their shoulders and sung its mating call into the ears of listeners all over the world, thanks primarily to the guidance of friend and producer David Ferguson. That bird is out flying around still, leaving abundances of smiling faces in its mighty wake.

Having learned thus to fly, Bonny got back to work on the Louisville-first mandate, digging back into songs left open on the table during the Purple process. He went into End of an Ear studio with Jim Marlowe engineering and co-producing; together they assembled a platoon of brilliant singers, blowers and pickers, including especially Bonny's current tour mates Jacob Duncan (flute and saxophone) and Thomas Deakin (clarinet, whistle, baritone electric guitar, accordion, cornet). Chris Bush applied his modular synth skills to Duncan's sax for "Davey Dead". And harpist Erin Hill, who Oldham first met back in the 1980s when he was a wee lad, sings and plays all over "Davey Dead".