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The Sprout and the Bean

Not always sure whether or not I like Joanna Newsom, but I do like this:

and this, for that matter:

Reminds me a bit of ISB, especially the Dolly Collins arrangements on The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter.

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8 Responses to “The Sprout and the Bean”

  1. roger Says:
    February 17th, 2010 at 6:59 pm

    What I like about her is that she seems to want to make it hard to like her -that voice! Which accentuates the moment of surrender when you do finally ‘like’ her. This is good.

  2. notdominic Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 12:35 am

    It’s a fine balance, isn’t it? Slightly reminiscent of the way Licorice McKechnie sang on the early ISB stuff, with a bit of Melanie Safka and Bjork thrown in. It has charm, in a way that makes me feel slightly uncomfortable – probably faux jail-bait innocence. Very nice, but I don’t think I’d want a lot of it…

  3. Dominic Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 10:22 pm

    Somehow managed to copy-paste the same tune in twice. The second one’s meant to be something different. Will fix.

  4. Seb Says:
    February 19th, 2010 at 2:49 am

    Nope. Nope. Nope.

  5. H. Says:
    March 6th, 2010 at 4:10 am

    “faux jail-bait innocence?” seriously? really?

  6. Rory O'Connor Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 4:39 pm

    Any thoughts on Bill Callahan?

  7. Dominic Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 6:22 pm

    None worth sharing at this time…

  8. Rory O'Connor Says:
    June 11th, 2010 at 1:07 pm

    Well, I hope that was supposed to sound promising! I like the blog.

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