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.”
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. [...]