Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

I love MEM, probably still my favourite of her records. My daughter was obsessed with it a few years back, when she was 3 or so, and knew all of Inflammatory Writ off by heart, along wih a few others. She would demand it whenever in our car, or indeed anybody's car, and both sets of our parents were entirely dumbfoudned by Newsom's voice when they heard it.

She's not so fussed about Newsom now and probably doesn't remember the words to the songs anymore - she's big into King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard at the moment - but I have a photo of Joanna that Steve Gullick took of her when we were covering her at SXSW 2004 to put up in my daughter's bedroom when I get around to getting it framed, and I'd still like to take her to see Joanna play live, if and when she ever plays here again.

kinda love that she's still not on streaming (afaik?)

I suspect she never will be

also, I think about the title to this thread often, and it always makes me giggle to think that a new Joanna Newsom album could singlehandedly cause blogs (whatever they were) to come crashing down. Seems quaint now.

kinda love that she's still not on streaming (afaik?)

she's on apple music like the rest of drag city, they're still holding out with spotify

The subtitle in this thread wasn't a suggestion that her record release would overwhelm traffic to music blogs, it was a response to the article in NOW Magazine suggesting that, because Have One On Me didn't break sales records, therefore blogs/Pitchfork/music criticism were revealed as impotent.

don't spoil it for me

Joanna Newsom could power her own cryptocurrency with the heat generated from those takes

I love MEM, probably still my favourite of her records. My daughter was obsessed with it a few years back, when she was 3 or so, and knew all of Inflammatory Writ off by heart, along wih a few others. She would demand it whenever in our car, or indeed anybody's car, and both sets of our parents were entirely dumbfoudned by Newsom's voice when they heard it.

― burnt hombre (stevie), Tuesday, June 15, 2021 9:19 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Is this your daughter: baby singing sprout and the bean ?

Ha! No, that's not her I'm afraid...

I've been jamming this recently, but despite the medieval joplinisms my senescent brain keeps trying to turn all of the songs into "donald, where's yer troosers?"

There is a blacksmith and there is a shepherd and there is a butcher boy
And there is a barber who's cutting and cutting away at my only joy

I saw a rabbit as slick as a knife and as pale as a candlestick
And I had thought it'd be harder to do but I caught her and skinned her quick, held her there

Kicking and mewling upended unspooling unsung and blue
Told her wherever you go little runaway bunny I will find you

And then she ran
As they're liable to do

Be at peace baby, and be gone
Be at peace baby, and be gone