| Have One on Me | 
| Artist: Joanna Newsom
Label: Drag City
Category: Music
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 2,462
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5 x 0.6
UPC: 781484039020
EAN: 0781484039020
ASIN: B0034C263A
Release Date: February 23, 2010
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Disc 1
| • | Easy | | • | Have One On Me | | • | '81 | | • | Good Intentions Paving Co. | | • | No Provenance | | • | Baby Birch |
Disc 2
| • | On A Good Day | | • | You And Me, Bess | | • | In California | | • | Jackrabbits | | • | Go Long | | • | Occident |
Disc 3
| • | Soft As Chalk | | • | Esme | | • | Autumn | | • | Ribbon Bows | | • | Kingfisher | | • | Does Not Suffice |
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Product Description
PITCHFORK 9.2!!! TRIPLE CD!! 125 minutes-worth of songs in deluxe packaging. Through the course of the 18 songs, Joanna visits ditties, weepies, court dances, rump-bumpers, epics & moments of panavision fantasia upon us. Beautiful picture sleeves for each CD plus lyric book. NO EXPORT - for real NO EXPORT
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 38
 Joanna's romantic phase February 23, 2010
Mr. D. A. Jones
24 out of 31 found this review helpful
I could quite legitimately be described as a Newsom fanboy. I have loved everything she has done from the helium voiced early Ep's to the intricate fables of Ys. I have seen her live 10 times, and would quite like to marry her. So I am biased, I admit it. At the same time, I think I have a sufficiently independent mind to judge each album on its own merits, and am able to hold my swoon long enough to engage my brain (this is not true at her concerts - she could sing me Uzbeki nursery rhymes backwards and I would be spellbound).
My initial reaction to 'Have One On Me' ( as with most of her output) was slightly puzzled and cautiously hopeful. I know from experience that the structure, punctuation and resonances of her work take time to settle and form, so I have let the music slosh through me and wash over me, holding back any critical judgement. And all of a sudden, as I hoped it would, the shape took form. While I have been familiar with some of these songs for a while now, it was a new new one, Go Long that seeded the crystal. The novelty of this album is a typically much longer melodic line, accompanied by a softer voice (brought about by a throat infection last year). The spacier, ringing arrangement of Go Long illustrates this change - gone are sharp points and counterpoints of The Book of Right On et al, or even the rush and tumble of Emily - instead she holds her voice, fluctuating or slowly descending around a slow, deliberate harp.
These songs are given much more musical space than the more wordy Ys, and this, combined with more varied arrangements and drawn out phrases, creates an initial impression of a hazy, unfocussed album. Once you catch the idea though, and let the slow ebb and flow of her newly sanded down voice carry you, you get it. Be it singing of abortion on Baby Birch, or of her own conception on '81, this new 'romantic' sound chimes with a much more straightforwardly emotional approach to her subjects - love, in form and in content, fills these songs. There are a couple which have not made their mark with me yet, but the album as a whole, listened to seriously and in silence, is a great and humbling listen, and I did almost cry many times - the 'kindness prevails' close to Esme had me shivering uncontrollably, and the closing Does Not Suffice is desperately sad and dare I say it, moving.
I have not had the time or wit to trace the links between these songs, but it is clear that some phrases, both musical and lyrical, reappear in different guises throughout the album - their is half jaunty, half sad blues line that haunts both Baby Birch and Does Not Suffice. I am certain that, as with her previous works, listening and relistening will repay and repay. I am looking forward to the work.
An Outstanding Leap Forward May 4, 2010
E. Milton
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Where can Joanna Newsom go from here? It's an exciting thought. Because if she continues these quantum leaps in excellence with every new album, there is no knowing what new frontiers she can reach in her music. This is a much more epic, more fully realised work than Ys (and that's really saying something!). Not only has it 18 songs compared to Ys's 5 but it also contains much more instrumental diversification and a much more delicate and sensitive production. Her voice is much richer and more versatile than before and her lyrics more personal and less obtuse. There are many many highlights: the upbeat, pulsating and quasi-pop Good Intentions Paving Company; the beautiful Far Eastern-inflected tracks Baby Birch and Kingfisher; the moving lyricism of In California. But there are no weak tracks or fillers in this 2-hour masterclass. The influences are obvious: Kate Bush, Bjork and Joni Mitchell to name but three but Newsom is bringing something greater to fruition in her work than her forebears were able to. This is a brave and bountiful masterpiece from surely the most original artist in contemporary Western music.
OMG. May 31, 2010
B. Munsen
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I could talk to you for hours about how amazing this album is or you could buy it for yourself and let it announce it to you.
It's absolutely wonderful and hasn't left my record player in months!
Pretty Amazing, Pretty Weird June 28, 2010
Toby Fee (Eugene, OR)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For an 'album' that takes over 2 hours to listen to, with a dynamic range from melodic marches to arrhythmic nonsense, it's hard to imagine a few short paragraphs to sum it up. It's amazing. Buy it, experience it. I hope you've got some weaving to do, or a fresco to paint, where you can put this whole crazy thing on, crank it, and really listen with the patience that such a large work is trying to express.
I will stay for the remainder... February 23, 2010
Joseph E. Mitchell (Corpus Christi, TX USA)
17 out of 24 found this review helpful
I can exclaim with tremendous joy and admiration that our little elfin harp-maiden has given us her masterpiece in "Have One on Me," her third album. Her evolution is masterful on these three beautifully intricate little connected "albums," each threaded to each other and yet somehow vital and satisfying in their own right.
Certain days I'm a disc one kind of guy. Tomorrow I might be in the mood for disc three. Who knows? Therein lies the beauty of this album. In dividing these songs over three discs and connecting them in such a way as to reveal the brilliantly interwoven disc-to-disc and album-spanning connections between these songs, "Have One on Me" begs us to dive in with insatiable gusto; with a lust to downright cake ourselves in its rich, inviting soil.
This album was designed to be digested piece by piece, so pacing is obviously essential. Repeated listens and exploration are not only rewarding, but absolutely transcendent. Don't be afraid to open up that little lyric booklet either. The poetry therein is unrivaled in contemporary music.
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