I have just got back from my first ever Joanna Newsom concert! Here is the set list from Glasgow, Scotland, on 20 September 2010:
1. The book of right-on
2. Have one on me
3. Easy
4. Cosmia
5. Soft as chalk
6. Kingfisher
7. Inflammatory writ
8. Ribbon bows
9. Good Intentions Paving Company
10. Sawdust and diamonds
11 (encore). Baby Birch
Being very much an Ys, tracks 1, 3 and 5 kind of person, I am quite overwhelmed! Only ‘Emily’ was missing …
I’d never seen (nor particularly heard) Roy Harper before, either, and enjoyed his set too. Between songs, he criticised the Pope (who was on a state visit to the UK just last week), which mostly went down well with the audience. It was a pity I could hardly make out the words of his songs, though.
I wonder who else from the form was at the concert tonight. (Jordan, I know you were there!) What did you think of it?