Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

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

Brooklyn 99/Lonely Island must be way more lucrative than I'd previously thought, or playing harp is the path to riches.

I'm curious what the story was behind the tossed Good Intentions Paving Company video. The leaked bit was kinda cringeworthy, so no big loss - I'm wondering if Newsom felt the same.

damn i thought she was all bohemian and shit

newsoms are a wealthy california family

is that actually true?

She did a huge tour didn't she? One harp, um, that's it?

mayor gavin newsom and his cousin joanna have both pulled themselves up by their boot/harpstring straps

sure she comes from some money but not enough money to buy that fucking house. that. fucking. house.

maybe they are the rich-celeb version of house poor now.

The house was $6 million it said. That's really not much for a celebrity mansion, especially between the two of them. Let's say JN gets paid $20k a gig for one of her harp tours, that's some serious money, too, eventually. Not as much as Samberg, who probably makes, what, $100K per episode of his TV show, plus commercials, hosting gigs, appearances and CDs and other stuff, but surely enough to get a big loan.

I recall an interview around the time of Ys where Newsom said she was saving up for a $50k harp. I don't think she's obscenely wealthy.

andy samberg was on SNL for a pretty long time, has done movies...idk makes sense, especially if she already came from money. who cares- i would love to hear a new album! although tbf "have one on me" is enough material to make the break seem not that insane

$20K/gig for a harp tour? Are you kidding?!!? No way.
I think it's movie money.

Regardless, WHAT A HOUSE. Good choice.

i wonder how much of the furniture in those photos (if any) came with the house.

Whatever she makes is kind of moot, because she doesn't tour much. But I bet she makes plenty doing the harp tour. She is a draw and the draw, so no way can they get away with "it's just you and a harp" and lowball. She has a booking agent (in her case, Billions) like anyone at that level who makes sure she is amply compensated.

BUt yeah, that house is nuts.

fwiw, I don't think being on SNL pays all that well, even if you're an established and beloved cast member.

Which is why the old guys moved on.

"Not quite ready for prime-time players" is not entirely ironic.

She's really great in Inherent Vice. She is the narrator of the film but she's also in it a lot - she's a significant character.

I think SNL pays anywhere from $6000 to $15K a week, plus bonuses for weekly writing credit. So ... plenty of money, plus commercials, movies, appearances, etc

Grown Ups 2 pays for many beautiful things.