Joanna Newsom - 'Instrumental 1999'
That title tells no lies: this is a vocal-less track that Joanna recorded in 1999, when she and her trusty Dodge Caravan were apparently a hot fixture on the Tahoe wedding-music circuit, according to label Drag City. Rather the glassy, choked...
Album review: Joanna Newsom - 'Have On On Me'...
Until now Joanna Newsom ’s only new song committed to tape in almost four years was ‘Colleen’ on the ‘Ys Street Band’ EP, where she sang, “ I tilled and planted, but could not produce/Not root nor leaf, nor flower, nor bean,...
Joanna Newsom: Barbican Hall, London, Thursday,...
At 9pm precisely, a door slides open and a woman in sombre charcoal descends a staircase to a charged, expectant hush. Feverishly anticipated and passionately desired, her arrival here in a roomful of breathless critics has been heralded as a...
Joanna Newsom: Ys
An album title taken from a mythical Breton city; songs that last 20 minutes; string arrangements by brainy Beach Boys collaborator Van Dyke Parks; cover art depicting Joanna Newsom as a Druid priestess; at least one lyric (“spelunking”)...
