Master and Everyone

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Master and Everyone
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 28, 2003 (2003-01-28)
Genre Americana, contemporary folk
Length34:09
Label Drag City
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy chronology
Ease Down the Road
(2001)
Master and Everyone
(2003)
Sings Greatest Palace Music
(2004)

Master and Everyone is a 2003 studio album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. It was released on Drag City.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 83/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Entertainment Weekly A− [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [4]
NME 9/10 [5]
Pitchfork 6.0/10 [6]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [8]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 83, based on 11 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [1]

NME named it the 37th best album of 2003. [9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Will Oldham.

No.TitleLength
1."The Way"3:49
2."Ain't You Wealthy, Ain't You Wise?"4:12
3."Master and Everyone"2:35
4."Wolf Among Wolves"3:47
5."Joy and Jubilee"2:45
6."Maundering"3:05
7."Lessons from What's Poor"3:41
8."Even If Love"3:24
9."Three Questions"3:14
10."Hard Life"3:34
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
11."Forest Time"6:42

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Charts

ChartPeak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [10] 47
French Albums (SNEP) [11] 139
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [12] 97
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [13] 8
UK Albums (OCC) [14] 48
US Independent Albums ( Billboard ) [15] 49

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