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Joanna Newsom
January 18, 1982 -
Nationality: American
Category: Musician
Subcategory: American Musician

I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

   

People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.

   

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

   

It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar.

   

Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own.

   

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

   

I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

   

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

   

I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.

   

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

   

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