Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Best Troubador The Stacks but with its careening

but with its careening

adding to the National's increasingly expansive aesthetic

string-drenched opener “Madman” is quite the departure

selling over 150 million records worldwide

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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Best Troubador The Stacks but with its careeningWith Best Troubador, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy pays homage to a long time 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 Merle's work in performance, on records and in conversation with anyone who was around, even talking to Merle himself for Filter magazine in 2009. Merle's body of work was considered by Bonny for a record such as this for