cat-like women
A couple weeks ago, Dylan IMs me:
Dylan: what’s the girl that plays harp and sings like a cat in a blender?
Me: Joanna Newsom?
Dylan: yeah, that’s the one.
Today, there was a pretty well-wrtten post by Long Winters front man John Roderick covers Bonnaroo for CMJ. In part he talks about Cat Power:
I thought, “Great. I’ve been suckered in. Chan Marshall is backstage having kittens and we’re going to sit out here with building anticipation only to have her never leave her trailer.â€
June 21st, 2006 at 12:09 pm
Dude. She’s (Cat Power) totally playing in Pittsburgh on the 9th of July. That really makes me want to go up for another weekend at home.
June 21st, 2006 at 8:45 pm
I don’t think you are rad.
June 21st, 2006 at 9:16 pm
Really, dude red? Oh, that’s a shame.
February 4th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
[…] If someone would have told me that Joanna Newsom’s newest record Ys would be my favorite of 2006, I would think that they were crazy. Before Ys, my only experience with her was a track on her debut, The Milk-Eyed Mender. And I really didn’t care for it. Like Dylan, I had similar misgivings about her voice. The cat in the blender didn’t come to mind. It was more like a squeaky preschooler. […]