Peter Townsend (drummer)
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Peter Townsend is an American drummer, session player and touring musician from Louisville, Kentucky
. He has recorded and performed with Will Oldham
in the bands Palace, Superwolf
and Bonnie "Prince" Billy, sharing live percussion duties with Jim White
on the Beware tour in the summer of 2009. He has also been featured on recordings and tours with King Kong
, Nathan Bell, Human Bell, Nicolai Dunger
, Brightblack Morning Light
and many others.
Singles
'Compilation'
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
. He has recorded and performed with Will Oldham
Will Oldham
Will Oldham , better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded under variations of the Palace name, including the Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music...
in the bands Palace, Superwolf
Superwolf
Superwolf is the name of an album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Matt Sweeney. It was released in 2005 on Drag City. Peter Townsend plays drums...
and Bonnie "Prince" Billy, sharing live percussion duties with Jim White
Jim White (drummer)
Jim White is an Australian drummer . He is the drummer for the Dirty Three, a band formed in Melbourne, but he has also played with a number of other groups, including:*Tren Brothers, consisting of Jim White and Mick Turner, guitarist of the Dirty Three....
on the Beware tour in the summer of 2009. He has also been featured on recordings and tours with King Kong
King Kong (band)
King Kong, a rock band from Louisville, Kentucky, formed in early 1989 by Ethan Buckler, the original bassist in the band Slint. The core trio for many years was made up of Buckler, Willie McClean , and Ray Rizzo...
, Nathan Bell, Human Bell, Nicolai Dunger
Nicolai Dunger
Nicolai Dunger is a singer and acoustic songwriter from Piteå in Sweden. He has released twelve EPs and albums, singing primarily in English, and collaborated notably with Will Oldham, the Esbjörn Svensson jazz trio and Ebbot Lundberg. He also records under the alias A Taste of Ra...
, Brightblack Morning Light
Brightblack Morning Light
Brightblack Morning Light was a band which formed in Northern California by Nathan Shineywater and Rachael Hughes, both of whom originally hail from Alabama, Shineywater from Birmingham and Hughes from just outside of Montgomery. Shineywater plays electric slide guitar, and Hughes favors vintage...
and many others.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
- I See a DarknessI See a DarknessI See a Darkness is an album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. It is Will Oldham's sixth album, and the first on which he used his Bonnie 'Prince' Billy moniker. The album was released in 1999 on Palace Records. The album also features Bob Arellano, Colin Gagon, Paul Oldham, and Peter Townsend.Johnny Cash...
- Summer in the SoutheastSummer in the SoutheastSummer in the Southeast is the first live album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, released in 2005 by Drag City.-Track listing:# "Master and Everyone" - 3:40# "Pushkin" - 4:15# "Blokbuster" - 4:19# "Wolf Among Wolves" - 3:56# "May It Always Be" - 3:03...
- SuperwolfSuperwolfSuperwolf is the name of an album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Matt Sweeney. It was released in 2005 on Drag City. Peter Townsend plays drums...
Singles
- I am Drinking Again
- We All, Us Three, Will Ride/ Barcelona
- Cold and Wet
- I Gave YouI Gave YouI Gave You by Bonny / Sweeney is the name of a CD EP released, July 26, 2005 on Drag City in the US, and Domino in Europe. The title track is taken from the album Superwolf , a collaboration between Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney...
- Love In The Hot Afternoon
- Hombre Sencillo
- Must Be Blind/Life In Muscle
- There Is No God/God Is Love
Nathan Bell
'Compilation'
Brightblack Morning Light
- Another Reclamation (Live) split 7" w/LungfishLungfish (band)Lungfish is a post-hardcore band formed in 1987 in Baltimore, Maryland. All of their music has been released by the Washington, D.C. punk label Dischord except for their first LP, Necklace of Heads which was released by Simple Machines .Their line-up as of 2005 consists of Daniel Higgs , Asa...