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Joanna Newsom Talks
And I listen — for The Economist online:
What was the most recent piece of music you listened to with your full attention?
The last time I was home, my record player had just been fixed, after months of being out of commission, so I spent a lot of time doing nothing but sitting and listening to music. I love my record collection so much at the moment! I feel a sort of weird pride about it, the way I ought to feel pride about my vegetable garden. I keep rediscovering albums I’d forgotten I owned.
I’ve been listening a lot again to Richard and Linda Thompson’s “First Light”. My brother and I sat in my living room late one night and drank wine and listened to that album, and were just freaking out about how good it is. I was also loving waking up in the mornings (or afternoons) and playing “Bowling Green” while I drank my coffee—do you know that record? It’s a folk record made by the Kossoy sisters in the late ’50s, amazing close harmonies and banjo stuff. My friend Kevin Barker gave me that record a few years ago, and it’s a favourite of mine. Oh, and “Church of Anthrax”, an album by John Cale and Terry Riley—I’ve been playing that a lot, too.
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