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Is It the Sea? No sir. It's the new live album from Bonnie "Prince" Billy, captured at an Edinburgh, Scotland gig in spring 2006. The set features Mr. Billy-- or is it Mr. Oldham?-- backed by local musicians Harem Scarem and Alex Neilson, and finds him rolling over many highlights of his sizable back catalog.

Is It the Sea? is due in the UK October 20 on CD, double LP and digital download from Domino. Bonnie "Prince" Billy's North American label Drag City has no definite plans to release Is It the Sea? on our side of the pond just yet, though.

Oldham will bring himself to a field in Jeffersontown, Kentucky on July 26. For a performance, we're assured. Then in October, he has a brief Spanish tour scheduled with the Oldham Brothers.

Is It the Sea?:

01 Minor Place
02 Love Comes to Me
03 Bed Is for Sleeping
04 Arise Therefore
05 Wolf Among Wolves
06 Ain't You Wealthy, Ain't You Wise?
07 Cursed Sleep
08 Molly Bawn
09 Birch Ballad
10 New Partner
11 Is It the Sea?
12 My Home Is the Sea
13 Master and Everyone

Tour dates:

07-26 Jeffersontown, KY - Funtown *
10-23 Valencia, Spain - Greenspace #
10-24 Barcelona, Spain - Bikini #
10-25 Madrid, Spain - Sala Heineken #
10-26 Palma Mallorca, Spain - Teatre Iloseta #

* with Thomas A. Minor and the Picket Line
# as the Oldham Brothers