The Gratitude List: Bonnie “Prince” Billy | 9
How Do You Cope?
Wondery
5 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s bonus episode, musician Bonnie “Prince” Billy, aka Will Oldham, shares the 5 things he is currently grateful for, and explains why he sees gratitude as acts of reverence and defiance.
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| 0:49.0 | One hundred. |
| 1:03.2 | The Welcome everyone to the Gratitude List. |
| 1:05.7 | This is the bonus podcast of How Do You Cope, |
| 1:08.7 | where I speak to my guest about things they're grateful for because because I've found along the road that gratitude |
| 1:11.8 | plays an enormous part in reframing life, whether it's difficult or easy, life in all its |
| 1:21.3 | colours, really. And my guest today is Will Oldham, who releases music under the name |
| 1:26.6 | Bonnie Prince Billy. And Will, on the |
| 1:29.7 | main podcast, we did actually speak about how gratitude for small things helps you in difficult times. |
| 1:37.0 | But I wanted to ask about something, before we get to your items, something you said on stage |
| 1:43.3 | recently in London, which has stayed with me, |
| 1:46.8 | is about how gratitude helps you to honour the suffering of others on earth. And it was quite a, |
| 1:58.5 | quite a big thing to hear while you were playing songs from your new album, The Purple Bird. |
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