Sometimes, you travel the world over only to find everything you ever wanted in Omaha. Or maybe, in the case of Bonny “Prince” Billy and Dawn McCarthy, you record music for over two decades only to find everything you ever wanted in an Everly Brothers‘s song. “Omaha” was recorded by the brothers in 1968, but was only released once, and not until 1977 in the UK on their, The New Album. Today, we have a new video for the track directed by Ben Russell, the media artist well-known for his “Trypps” series, as well as curator of the Magic Lantern Cinema in Providence, Rhode Island. This is Russell’s first foray into music video directing, and for “Omaha” he composites images of Bonnie and Dawn over shots of a man entering and exiting the ocean, as well as travel footage of Italy shot on a breath-taking street, and in a dark disco. A certain dream-like quality is present, as all of Russell’s characters don a strange, hooded robe…Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Dawn McCarthy’s What the Brothers Sang is out now on Drag City.
