If you ever catch her live, Joanna Newsom will stun the shit out of you. There's just nothing out there like her. She's that powerful & bizarre. For example, the featured song on my Myspace profile for the longest time was the SPROUT & THE BEAN, which got me tons of attention & random inquiries from strangers. One friend thought that it was me making that beautiful music, because my name is Joanna too and well... he was extremely impressed and thinking I was this mondo-goddess for like half a second until he realized his mistake. Sorry to be such a let down! & I wish it wasn't a mistake... Oh to be so original, clever & free. I did have the privelage of seeing her play last spring in Silver Lake where she debuted some songs in progress to an over-packed, drooling crowd of hipsters hanging on her every note & for, like I said, good reason. Now that very material has become an album, that album has become an official release, and the critics are raving again. You really need to check this out...
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