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Post by Jessie on Sept 28, 2010 20:39:20 GMT -5
She just finished her new album "Dancing on Needles"! Yay! New pic from the album photoshoot:
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Post by Jessie on Aug 1, 2010 17:47:42 GMT -5
Thanks Deb!
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Post by Jessie on Aug 1, 2010 15:19:26 GMT -5
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Post by Jessie on Jun 21, 2010 11:39:14 GMT -5
I just watched the lovely bones Moving, haunting and beautiful despite what the critics say! this was the latest movie i've seen. i agree with you on this. i thought that it was quit touching and lovely through and through. Did you guys read the book? I was really disappointed that the movie left out the entire part about how she was raped and was over coming that - since it was the inspiration for the entire story. But other then that major flaw I DID like the movie.
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Post by Jessie on Jun 1, 2010 19:14:43 GMT -5
Beyond amazing! She's probably even better live than on the record, which I thought was almost impossible. She played a lot of personal favorites from 'Have One On Me', plus some old songs, often with some new arrangements. She looked amazingly beautiful, she was very funny and happy, and her band was amazing as well. So great to see so many talented people on one stage making incredible music. I hope she'll come back soon, because I would love to see her again! I can't wait to see her in LA in July. I want to hear Go Long, In California, Colleen, Only Skin and Baby Birch. I would hit up more dates if I wasn't preggers. Seems like she so rarely tours!! Sorry I'm spamming the Jo thread. I will calm down now. ;D
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Post by Jessie on Jun 1, 2010 19:09:14 GMT -5
I think it's genuine quirkiness. My husband calls her Popeye.
Almost comparable to Tori's "I have the demon in me" freakouts IMO.
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Post by Jessie on Jun 1, 2010 18:51:37 GMT -5
Great video of Baby Birch re: her story telling, this one is such a good example. It's rumored that this song is about abortion. If you follow the lyrics closely in relation to when the other instruments chime in it's so moving. This is the song for Baby Birch. I will never know you. And at the back of what we've done, there is that knowledge of you.
I wish we could take every path. I could spend a hundred years adoring you. Yes, I wish we could take every path, because I hated to close the door on you.
Do you remember staring, up at the stars, so far away in their bulletproof cars? We heard the rushing, slow intake of the dark, dark water, and the engine breaks, and I said,
How about them engine breaks? And, if I should die before I wake, will you keep an eye on Baby Birch? Because I'd hate to see her make the same mistakes.
When it was dark, I called and you came. When it was dark, I saw shapes. When I see stars, I feel, in your hand, and I see stars, and I reel, again.
Well mercy me. I'll be goddamned. It's been a long, long time since I last saw you. And I have never known the plan. It's been a long, long time. How are you? Your eyes are green. Your hair is gold. Your hair is black. Your eyes are blue. I closed the ranks, and I doubled back-- but, you know, I hated to close the door on you.
We take a walk along the dirty lake. Hear the goose, cussing at me over her eggs. You poor little cousin. I don't want your dregs (A little baby fussing all over my legs).
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 begone.
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Post by Jessie on Jun 1, 2010 18:47:59 GMT -5
I know you like her and all, but why does she sing like someone hit her in the face? I've never heard anything by her and I was like: ok, let's check this out... Errr... yeah.. (I'm kinda bitchy tonight ) I find it really interesting that I know so many people find her voice ugly and horrible but I think it's the most beautiful voice I've ever heard. Honestly, in my heart it rivals Tori's. Her style is so uniquely old school folk and her squeaks and emotion in her voice can literally make me cry. (Only Skin and Baby Birch for two good examples.) Her albums are as raw as Pele was. She reminds me right now of how I imagine Tori was during Pele's era. She is on fire in her own right and I can't find anyone else who is in her league at the moment. I'm sure it really comes down to that type of music. If you can't sit outside in the hot sun for ten hours at a banjo and folk festival like I can, it's doubtful you will be able to tolerate something like Joanna. Also, the story telling in her songs is untouched by anyone else I've found.
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Post by Jessie on Jun 1, 2010 12:17:37 GMT -5
^ how was the live experience?!
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Post by Jessie on May 31, 2010 19:13:16 GMT -5
Great video of Baby Birch
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Post by Jessie on May 22, 2010 10:06:17 GMT -5
Hummm... honestly, not much came out this year that I like. Except for
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
and the new Keller Williams - Thief album is about to come out, which I'm sure I'll love.
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Post by Jessie on May 22, 2010 9:56:57 GMT -5
The long haired goddess busting it out on piano. (Watch till the end, so cute.)
Good Intentions Paving Company Admiral Palast, Berlin 17.05.2010
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Post by Jessie on May 1, 2010 13:44:09 GMT -5
Joanna Newsom 7/31/10 Orpheum Theater Los Angeles CA - really crappy side seats thanks to shit-master but excited none the less!
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Post by Jessie on Apr 25, 2010 18:15:00 GMT -5
I love this song off the last album: Present/Infant Such a good message
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Post by Jessie on Apr 9, 2010 18:19:03 GMT -5
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