JOANNA NEWSOM AT WEBSTER HALL. Reviews of harp-plucking songstress Joanna Newsom's new CD Ys have been glowing. It's due out this month.
Newsom must surely be an "acquired taste" for many. Her songs are very well-crafted and her harp-playing is skillful...but her voice is a peculiar kind of girly howl. I'd like to hear smoother-voiced singers cover her tunes, but I'm also captivated by her stylistic blend of sweetness and rough-hewn vocals, as heard on her CD The Milk-Eyed Mender.
This Monday, November 13, she'll play an early show and a late show at Webster Hall.
Here she performs "The Book of Right-On" from The Milk-Eyed-Mender.
Ys, made with Van Dyke Parks, consists of five longish cuts. You can hear "Cosmia" around the 3:34 mark on the audio files for Pseu Braun's WFMU show here; it's about 7 minutes long.
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Time Out New York gave her new disc SIX stars, and had me intrigued. Thank GOD I watched that video before buying. Even after reading your "warning" about her voice, I was cracking up! How can the audience just be sitting there? Reminds me of the one of the final scenes of Zadie Smith's excellent On Beauty, when a Glee Club appears at a formal dinner and our protagonist Howard totally loses it.
Anyway, thanks.
Actually, Scottie, David and I saw her at South Street Seaport summer before last and after the initial shock of her voice there's something appealing about her music. Granted, it started to pour so we didn't get a full concert.
Not bad. A little Betty Boop, a little Rickie Lee Jones, a little Baba Wawa, some Carol Kane, and of course Harpo.
I have not yet seen her at the grocery or post office, but purportedly Joanna "Ozzie" Newsom spends at least part of her time right here in Austin, in the company of paramour Bill Callahan (performer persona: "Smog"), a recent-ish transplant. Maybe you can do the virtual legwork on this lead, and I'll survey the city limits for a glissed-out chick . . .
By the way, I was *shocked* to hear Barbara Walters describe the disgraced and deposed Republicans as "a veritable rogues' gallery." Shocked that I understood what she was trying to say! ^
^ disclaimer: she did not say this, I'm just making fun of her lisp . . .
This is just a wild and reckless guess, but I think she and her beau will play The Parish on December 13.
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