| Have One on Me | 
| Artist: Joanna Newsom
Label: Drag City
Category: Music
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Rating:  26 reviews
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5 x 0.6
UPC: 781484039020
EAN: 0781484039020
Release Date: March 1, 2010
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| Tracks:
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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Showing reviews 1-5 of 26
 Sumptuous feast March 4, 2010
Dave Gilmour's cat (on Dave Gilmour's boat)
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
This is a truly, truly great album: a masterpiece. Combining elements of the sparklingly fresh and original debut ( The Milk-Eyed Mender) with the more lavish, ornate follow-up (Ys), this is nevertheless another leap forwards for Joanna Newsom.
Her singing has become more assured and powerful. The harp playing is as beautiful as ever, but the songs often blossom unexpectedly with other instrumentation. Some of the album's most affecting moments are piano-based. The song structures are also very impressive - sometimes complex but never 'obscure' for the sake of it - and overflowing with intricate melodies.
It IS reminiscent of Kate Bush in places (no bad thing), but still unmistakably Joanna Newsom.
Over three discs it takes time to appreciate what a subtle and far-reaching song cycle this is, but the album really rewards repeat plays. It's a sumptuous feast that will keep this listener enthralled for years to come.
Who else is putting out material of this quality in 2010?
Joanna's romantic phase February 24, 2010
Mr. D. A. Jones
21 out of 24 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.
simply brilliant June 1, 2010
R. Weight (Brighton, United Kingdom)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been listening to Joanna Newsom for several years now, and was so taken with The Milk Eyed Mender that I was dubious about YS. YS turned out to be beautiful, and complementary to The Milk Eyed Mender, but yet again when I found out Newsom was releasing a further album I was worried that it wouldn't live up to the harmonious arrangements, fables and stories, and hypnotic melodies of her previous works.
I needn't have worried. It took me a week to finally pluck up the courage to playing this after buying it, and I was not disappointed. It grows and grows on you the more you listen to it, and you can hear Newsom's development (new instruments and bluesy sounds) but there are echos back to the other albums.
I can't describe each song - just if you buy one album this year - buy this one. You won't regret it.
the wonder of newsom May 21, 2010
Kristen
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Stunning- far exceeds expectations. This will be my soundtrack to the summer of 2010. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous! buy it now
In a word - Stunning February 22, 2010
Jamie Sterne (Chester, UK)
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
I received this today having pre-ordered from the USA. I have been craving for a new album from Joanna Newsom ever since hearing her amazing previous album Ys. Have One On Me is just what I wanted and more. Her voice is better than ever, the songs are more diverse in style and instrumentation. If like me you feel that you've been waiting forever for this then you won't be disappointed, in fact you will probably feel spoilt rotten by this amazing album. Its really too kind of her to deliver 18 stunning songs.
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