Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

pt 2 in my bay pride posting for today...haven't much opinion on JN, but do want to shout out to Andy Strain (trombone) and Emily Packard (violin), who are part of her touring band. east bay all stars!!!

(about the Garden of Eden -- A.D. 1, geddit?)

This doesn't make sense

This one is the concert I was alluding to earlier.

"Hipster" as pejorative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtrWJe4xgFI

Best thread ever. Ridiculously long, but still great. Also love this performance of soft as chalk

Mmm, not sure why i hyperlinked instead of just Youtubing. Lesson learnt.

http://pitchfork.com/news/40456-joanna-newsom-not-doing-the-simpsons/

"Regrettably, the awesome rumor of my upcoming cameo on 'The Simpsons' is unfounded. I remain, however, steadfast as always in my commitment to the character of Lisa, whom I have of course had the privilege of voicing for the last 21 years, in my dreams. Thanks for the memories, gang!"

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What do you think of the freak-folk scene, which is influenced by some of the artists you produced?
I like the idea of it. and I particularly like that they like the Incredible String Band. But I find Joanna Newsom’s voice annoying.

--Joe Boyd

Says it all to me, especially that Joe Boyd of all people said this. I've never understood what people see in her

She'll be happy about that. Him liking freak folk, and not her, since she's said she doesn't consider herself a part of that scene.

attaching some kinda authoritative well he must! know credit to him is kinda tenuous imo. he doesn't like her, he doesn't like her voice. joanna newsom's voice arguments are pretty passe, i don't think he's shining any new light on it.

I don't know. Boyd seems to have an incredible ability to see things in terms of how they'll seem thirty years from now, but that could be my own projection of him. I mean to have produced records by both Nick Drake and Toumani Diabate... those two are probably some of the only geniuses to have existed in popular music in the 20th century.

"Baby Birch, "In California" and "'81" still pop into my head a lot. I ought to give the whole thing another spin next time I've got two free hours.

It's not close to Ys and in hindsight three discs is just too much and a bad idea, but it makes for a pretty good DIY mix.

lol joe, isb's vocals were terrible

was gonna say. (and i love the ISB, but in terms of vocals that 9 out of 10 people will call "annoying" it's a tossup betw. isb and joanna)

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Record-toting tote bag from Drag City:

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Will this album be filled with pixie dust, unicorns, and magic?

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:15 PM

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Got a free ticket to the first show of her new tour in Marlay Park last night. Didn't know what to expect going in, but it ended up being one of the best gigs I've seen in a long time. The vastness of the new stuff works better live, and the old stuff is better than the album versions because she has a bit more control over her voice now. She ended with Baby Birch, which had these great shimmering Telecaster chords that were a lot more prominent than the album version. Strangely, the only song that didn't really work was Good Intentions Paving Company, because it seemed a bit out of place compared to everything else she played.

Bert Jansch was a good support act too, he's still quite the mean guitarist, even if his voice is completely shot. Think he was in crowdpleasing form, because he played quite a few Irish tunes, including Blackwater Side.

Good support act choices. I enjoyed seeing Roy Harper play with her last year.

still haven't seen her live -- it would be nice to at some point

can't wait for blood to spill when she and Aerosmith share the same bill.

blood in an elevator

joannie's got a gun

still haven't seen her live -- it would be nice to at some point

she's great, & captivating, but seemed sorta stuck between two approaches last time i saw her - like there's this huge emphasis on rendering & detail that comes w/her group, who play a bunch of weird small exotic looking string instruments. and i feel like that fit for ys in a way that it doesn't quite for the new one, which seemed like it might suit something alternatively a bit looser or more boisterous (re good intentions, just upthread)

yeah makes sense

Only saw her during her first European tour, first album. There wasn't any emphasis on rendering then tbh. It was just Joanna and her harp, really.

Which obv was great

:D :D

yeah for sure, & even w/o her harp!, singing yarn and glue. that was unruly.

http://bombsite.com/issues/116/articles/5106
this is interesting, btw

RH What do you think has been gained and lost through the increasingly ambitious scope of your albums? There would seem to be more orchestration, for instance. Do you miss the immediacy of your earlier work, such as The Milk-Eyed Mender?

JN This is a real hot topic for me, Roy. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately because I’m trying to write again. When people talk to me about my last three albums, they always seem to invoke a sort of trajectory, some traceable, stepwise evolution from sparseness to density or from simplicity to adornment. Yet, for me, the differences from record to record don’t follow a linear progression; the albums are three unrelated sets of ideas sprung up from the rubble of the spent ideas that preceded them. My basic creative assumptions tend to shift every few years in the wake of some levee-breaking accretion of new biases, longings, habits, preoccupations, mythologies, fears, superstitions, demystifications, heresies, tics, values, attachments, grudges, vices, diversions, avocations, sources of inspiration and of discouragement. I always end up in the same place after I finish recording and touring an album: devoid of ideas, and afraid I won’t be able to write anything worthwhile again. One of the first thoughts to flicker into that void tends to be, How can I make my next work relate to what preceded it? I usually make a plan, which later reveals itself to be moot, but to which I cling for a little while, in a talismanic sense.

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http://stokewithoutsound.tumblr.com/post/12851977627/littlerunawaybunny-framenoir-joanna-newsom

Hot.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/07/7-minutes-in-heaven-with-joanna-newsom.html

I wonder why that was web only?

wtf?

I was looking on Joanna Newsom's Wikipedia page to get her backstory and this story cracked me up all over again:

She also had a spiritual streak, which her parents likewise indulged. When she was 18, in the middle of her senior year of high school, she decided that she needed “some sort of ritual marker of the end of childhood.” Her plan was to camp in the open air for three days and nights, eating little, seeing no one, communing with the great outdoors. Newsom’s mother sanctioned her missing school and helped her daughter scout out a place by the Yuba, in the middle of 35 wild acres owned by family friends.

“I hesitate to speak about it because it sounds so corny, but one of my goals out there was to find a spirit-animal,” Newsom told me. “On the third day, I was kind of delirious. I’d only eaten a little rice. I’d just slept and looked at a river for three days. I was prepared to be visited by my spirit animal — I was just sitting there, saying some sort of prayer, inviting that presence into my life. And then I saw three white wolves charging down at me. I thought maybe I was hallucinating; but I was also prepared to die. But the wolves ran up and started licking my face. Then I remembered that the daughter of the woman who owned the property kept domesticated wolves.” A few hours later, Newsom hiked out of the woods and went home. Her mother had organized a celebratory dance party for Newsom and her girlfriends. She strung up lights and served four kinds of cake.

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http://pitchfork.com/news/49691-joanna-newsom-and-andy-samberg-engaged/

has she dropped off of the face of the earth? i certainly haven't heard anything about her for almost two years.

She has a role in the new Paul Thomas Anderson film

Don't know about any new music though..,

She bought an amazing house.

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/07/41_photos_inside_andy_samberg_and_joanna_newsoms_mindblowing_moorcrest_estate.php

It looks a bit like the Ghbili museum.

Bugger, *Ghibli* museum