Joanna Newsom

Joanna Newsom: Ys and The Ys Street Band

by Joshua Weiner
August 21, 2007

Joanna Newsom Ys/The Ys Street Band Drag City 2006/2007

Joanna Newsom is not a jazz singer, to be sure. But neither is she a pop singer, nor simply a folk singer, even one with the back-handedly complimentary “freak sobriquet inserted as a prefix. No, Joanna Newsom is a force of nature, the kind of conduit to ancient musical and lyrical verities that appears from time to time, to grace those who listen ...