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Post by Peeping Tommi on Jun 1, 2010 2:43:24 GMT -5
I was there!
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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 Peeping Tommi on Jun 1, 2010 17:01:59 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!
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Post by She-Ra Winehouse on Jun 1, 2010 18:33:28 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 )
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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 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 She-Ra Winehouse on Jun 1, 2010 19:04:13 GMT -5
I meant more the way her face is when she sings.. maybe it's because she's all in the moment or whatever, but she looks like she's had a stroke or something... Sorry, but I kinda rolled my eyes and laughed.
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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 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 hoochie on Jun 2, 2010 15:53:25 GMT -5
Beyond amazing! She's probably even better live than on the record, which I thought was almost impossible. My thoughts exactly! I saw her week ago and the experience was amazing! She's so talented and adorable ;D Afterwards I didn't even mind that it cost me a fortune to get to Helsinki to see her, next time she tours here I might do a few shows more. Only downside was that the show was so short, 1,5 hours ain't enough! She played many of my favorites; Soft As Chalk, Book of Right-On, In California, Monkey & Bear and opener ยด81 made me cry ;D Too bad I didn't like her new version of Peach, Plum, Pear. Here's a cute video of her asking what to eat after the show + Soft as Chalk
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Post by Peeping Tommi on Jun 3, 2010 3:26:55 GMT -5
Taru, how great that you got to see her as well! I must say I got teary-eyed as well when she opened with ''81'. That song is just magical and I can hear it all day long. Let's have one on Joanna!
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