One appreciated the Echo for finally living up to its name with Tillman’s seasoned voice filling up the entire room and the walls sending its best approximation back to our grateful ears. And what a voice, an uncanny combination of Jason Molina and Will Oldham’s vocal timbres, it’s probably at its most effective when Tillman would simply, wordlessly hum. Maybe it was all that hair covering his face that made some of his cries resound like a lone wolf howling in the darkness.

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Will Oldham is finishing a long streak of interviews in advance of his new Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy album Beware. He speaks a few weeks after a photo shoot at the Figueroa Hotel downtown and will be playing the El Rey tonight. This interview by Katie Byron.

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