Will Oldham's new Bonnie "Prince" Billy album Beware will be out later this month (March 16 in the UK via Domino, March 17 in America via Drag City), and it is great. But the album and the attendant promotional duties won't exactly dominate Oldham's calendar in the coming months. Maybe in an effort to wash the stink of commerce off himself, Oldham has a few decidedly non-"big" projects coming up.First up, Oldham has teamed up with Cheyenne Mize, the fiddle player for the Lousiville psych-folk band Arnett Hollow and a member of Oldham's own touring band, to release an extremely limited 10" vinyl EP called Among the Gold. The EP consists entirely of covers of songs originally recorded between 1873 and 1915. Karate Body Records will release it this spring, and the first pressing will be on cream-colored vinyl and limited to 500 copies, so it will probably not be around for long. Karate Body has streams of two songs from the record here. Another Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Cheyenne Mize track, "The Girl in Me", appears on the Louisville Is for Lovers Vol. 9 compilation, out now on Karate Body.As we previously reported, Oldham will also share a split 7" with the Louisville post-hardcore band Young Widows. The split features the Widows' "King of the Back-Burners" on one side and Bonnie "Prince" Billy's "Poor Shelter" on the other. It's the first in a series of splits that the Widows are doing; they've also got splits with Melt-Banana and Pelican coming out, and both of those bands have way more in common with Young Widows musically than Oldham does. Temporary Residence will ship the Widows/Oldham split on or around March 15.Oldham also appears on one song on Shark Tank, the new self-released album from Austin comedy-rap singer Black Nasty. The song, currently streaming on Black Nasty's MySpace page, is called "Eazy", and yes, it's about Eazy-E. Mostly it's this Black Nasty guy half-rapping about Eazy (sample lyric: "My grandpa taught me how to fish / But Eazy taught me that all bitches ain't shit") while Oldham coos softly in the background. It's basically terrible, and it's proof that a Bonnie "Prince" Billy song about Eazy-E is way better in theory than it is in practice.Also, Oldham's about to go on tour.read more